Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.... They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes..., their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is wh...y they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; an...d at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a fruitful island of the sea-world, a great Ithaca, there parched and stony and here trodden by flocks and curly- headed bul...ls and heavy with thick-set grain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »