The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writ...ers have had it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So I begin to understand why my mother's radar is so sensitive to criticism. She still treads the well-worn ruts of her youth, whe...n her impression of mother was of a woman hard to please, frequently negative, and rarely satisfied with anyone--least of all herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you really want to know who I think started the war?... Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough t...o blow themselves off the face of the earth?... The trouble with you is you want a simple answer and there isn't any. The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide. Everybody had an atomic bomb and counter-bombs and counter- counter-bombs. The devices outgrew us, we couldn't control them. I know. I helped build them, God help me. Some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something, knew that if he hesitated one thousandth of a second his own country would be wiped off the map, so, so he pushed a button. And, and the world went crazy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These cheeks were wont more fresh and fair to be; But now, what once made me so much admired... Is least regarded, and of none desired.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs (the sister and the brother),... Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unhappy is the man for evermair That tills the sand and sawis in the air;... But twice unhappier is he, I lairn, That feidis in his hairt a mad desire And follows on a woman thro the fire, Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The welcome house of him my dearest guest. Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,... Till natures sad decree shall call thee hence; Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone, I here, thou there, yet both but one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mighty Architect,... With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this be fled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"But, first a hush of peace--a soundless calm descends; The struggle of distress, and fierce impatience ends;... Mute music soothes my breast--unuttered harmony, That I could never dream, till Earth was lost to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;... A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »