The Only Use of
pithy
in
The Glass Castle
- If the typewriter keys were clattering away, she was at work on one of her novels, poems, plays, short stories, or her illustrated collection of pithy sayings—one was "Life is a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in"—which she'd titled "R. M. Walls's Philosophy of Life."
p. 98.4pithy = concise (said in few words), but full of meaning