There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all... feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which belies... it, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been spending my first night in an American "summer hotel," and I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining ca...llow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through the... prison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had "troubles," frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had "complications." To ...have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with "troubles," but they almost always succumbed to "complications."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass... manners, crass landscape!!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, & eating bananas for breakfast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »