I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the... next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of t...he great epics is past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotis...m was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot, i.e., loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better), you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take pains ... to write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compa...ct hand as well as a fair and legible one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life, he himself said once, (his biografiend, in fact, kills him verysoon, if yet not, after) is a wake, livit or kirkit, and on t...he bunk of our breadwinning lies the cropse of our seedfather, a phrase which the establisher of the world by law might pretinately write across the chestfront of all manorwomanborn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statis...tics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »