They won't come to learn, only to stare. I'll be a freak in a sideshow: Lazarus the Second! Fifty cents to look, a dollar to touch....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a reportorial quality in Hemingway's work that is absent from Fitzgerald's fiction. Hemingway's technique--in his early w...ork, at least--was to let the observed detail convey emotion with no authorial analysis. Fitzgerald was more concerned with evoking and analyzing the feeling of an experience than with recording detail. As he advised his daughter, "But when in a freak moment you will want to give the low-down, not the scandal, not the merely reported but the profound essence of what happened at a prom or after it, perhaps that honesty will come to you--and then you will understand how it is possible to make even a forlorn Laplander feel the importance of a trip to Cartier's!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very li...ttle affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For thousands the world is a freak show, the images flicker past and disappear, the impressions remain flat and disconnected in th...e soul. Thus, they are easily led by the opinions of others, are willing to let their impressions be reordered, rearranged, and reevaluated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the so...ul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human;... they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm not gonna change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all m...y life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could stand me?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still ab...le to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A freak but moist flower tangles my lungs, knits into my heart,... crawls up my throat and sucks like octopi on my tongue. You planted it happily last summer and I let it take root with my moon-hope....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »