## Metadata * Author: [[Robert Warren]] * ASIN: B09WYRLR9X * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WYRLR9X ## Highlights He would come home in the evening, and because he knew that he could not work he would go to bed immediately. He would sleep twelve hours, fourteen hours, fifteen hours, feeling himself, while asleep, plunge deeper and deeper into sleep like a diver groping downward into dark water feeling for something which may be there and which would glitter if there were any light in the depth, but there isn’t any light. — location: [3773](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09WYRLR9X&location=3773) ^ref-33692 --- “For what reason, barring Original Sin, is a man most likely to step over the line?” I answered: “Ambition, love, fear, money.” — location: [3830](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09WYRLR9X&location=3830) ^ref-45042 --- For all any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh — location: [4094](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09WYRLR9X&location=4094) ^ref-38944 --- felt as you do when you pass down a dark street and look up to see a lighted window and in the bright room people talking and singing and laughing with the firelight splashing and undulating over them and the sound of the music drifts out to the street while you watch; and then a hand, you will never know whose hand, pulls down the shade. And there you are, outside. — location: [4102](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B09WYRLR9X&location=4102) ^ref-43907 ---