Amerikali roman yazari, gazeteci, senarist Sarisin Bomba M.M!nun yazari Alvah Bessie’nin dogum yildonumu (4 Haziran 1904)
" ‘Yapma’ dedi Phil. ‘Sana asik olmak istemiyorum. Ben kirkindayim sen ise yirmibir yasindasin.’
‘Bucuk.’ dedi Wanda optu menejerini.
Phil koltuktan kalkti ve ‘gelecegin film yildizinin eve gitme zamani geldi.’ dedi aci aci gulerek. Kizin cantasini ve salini koltugunun altina SIKISTIRDI. Ne var ki kiz gitmeye hic yanasmıyordu. Kaslarini catarak biraz once optugu adama bakiyordu.
‘Bana asik olmani isterim Phil.’
‘Hayir. Sen bana asik olursan daha iyi. Hem bu senin hosuna daha cok gider.!
‘Neden?’
‘Sana Pazar okulunda ogretmediler mi, vermek almaktan daha kutsaldir diye?’
‘Bugune dek asik olmadim.’
‘Sabırli ol kucugum onunde kocaman bir omur var.’
‘Sanmam. Kimi zaman dusunuyorum da, cok uzun surmeyeceğini anlıyorum hayatimin.’"
“ ‘Don’t do that’ he said. ‘I might fall in love with you and I'm forty years old and you're twenty-one.’
‘And a half,’ she said, kissing him again.
He got out of the chair then and said, ‘Come on, Miss Wanda Oliver, future movie star. I'm taking you back toy he nunnery.’ He got her handbag and gave it to her and blue Mexican stole she had picked up on Olvera Street and threw it around her shoulders. But she stood there, looking at him, and she said, frowning a little, ‘I think I'd like it if you ffell in love with me, Phil.’
‘No.’ he said. ‘You'd like it better if you fell in love with me.’
‘Why’
‘Didn’t they teach you in Sunday school? It’s more blessed to give than to receive.’
‘I’ve never really been in love in my whole life.’
‘Be patient’ he said. ‘You have loads of tiem.’
‘I don’t know about that. Sometimes I f-feel I won’t l-live very long.’ “
"... onalti yasina gelinceye dek agladigimi hatirlamam. Bunu soyleyen baska bir oksuz bulursan talihli sayilirsin. Kaskati olmasi gerek aglamayan oksuzlerin. Benim gibi. (Kaskati bir piknik yumurtasi, haslanmis.) Yalnızliga alisirsin bir sure sonra. Dovulmeye, sovulmeye, terk edilmeye hep alisirsin."
“…I don’t think I ever cried again till I was sixteen years old, and if you know any orphans they will tell you that they’re pretty tough customers, like I’m a tough customer myself. (Big deal, hard-boiled like a picnic egg!) You get used to being alone and abandoned and kicked around and that’s a fact.”
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