It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts.... One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profi...t, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The analogy between baseball fans and jazz fans is closer, it seems to me, than that between other audiences. The aficionados are ...aware of and concerned with the refinements of performance and the particular kinds of poetry in both solo and ensemble performances. (A beautifully executed double steal is as elegant as a Goodman arpeggio.) Like baseball fans, jazz fans know who played where and with whom and to what effect; they talk a rarefied language and drop the names of clarinetists and percussionists as baseball fans do the names of long-forgotten (except by them) shortstops and spitballers. Their retention of detail is prodigious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have..., than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a herm...it crab or a snail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, San Francisco has experienced a double tragedy of incredible proportions. As acting mayor, I order an immediate state of mo...urning in our city. The city and county of San Francisco must and will pull itself together at this time. We will carry on as best as we possibly can.... I think we all have to share the same sense of shame and the same sense of outrage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose I now have the reputation of being an inscrutable dipsomaniac. One woman here originated the rumour that I am extremely ...lazy and will never do or finish anything. (I calculate that I must have spent nearly 20,000 hours in writing Ulysses.) A batch of people in Zurich persuaded themselves that I was gradually going mad and actually endeavoured to induce me to enter a sanatorium where a certain Doctor Jung (the Swiss Tweedledum who is not to be confused with the Viennese Tweedledee, Dr. Freud) amuses himself at the expense (in every sense of the word) of ladies and gentlemen who are troubled with bees in their bonnets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daze had come over his mind, he had another centre of consciousness. In his breast, or in his bowels, somewhere in his body, the...re had started another activity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, th...is is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »