We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is grow...ing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm push...ed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at... last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage... through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not naturally ... "A bag of wind"; yet ... I mean deliberately and decidedly "to cut" in future all my old ideas on this head.... I don't think modesty "pays." It is a good quality in a family, it is a domestic virtue, it makes a home happy after you have got a home, but it is not potent in getting homes. It is not a money-maker, neither is it lucky in gaining a reputation. I am of the impression that gaseous bodies do better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touch'd it?... Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever? Or have smelt of the bud of the brier, Or the nard in the fire? Or have tasted the bag of the bee? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with th...e women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people.... Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice--the e...xhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with eleme...nts of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »