The flies swarmed on the putrid vulva, then A black tumbling rout would seethe... Of maggots, thick like a torrent in a glen....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, many a day have I made good ale in the glen, That came not of stream, or malt, like the brewing of men;... My bed was the ground, my roof the greenwood above, And the wealth that I sought, one far kind glance from my love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And each of the huge white creatures was huger than fourscore men; The tops of their ears were feathered, their hands were th...e claws of birds, And, shaking the plumes of the grasses and the leaves of the mural glen, The breathing came from those bodies, long warless, grown whiter than curds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his p...raise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passag...e. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. P...eople think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »