It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of ...the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shook off the sweat and the sun. I understood that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach wh...ere I had been happy. Then I shot four more times at an inert body which the bullets penetrated without appearing so. And it was like four brief knocks that I struck on the door of misfortune.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one h...undred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and ...on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. ...He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healt...hy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »