When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely cured ...and at rest from all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too me...an. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interreg...num. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping--rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas--But, goodness, why need they do it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines,... like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me,... everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Hindoos compare the moon to a saintly being who has reached the last stage of bodily existence. Great restorer of antiqu...ity, great enchanter! In a mild night when the harvest or hunter's moon shines unobstructedly, the houses in our village, whatever architect they may have had by day, acknowledge only a master. The village street is then as wild as the forest. New and old things are confounded. I know not whether I am sitting on the ruins of a wall, or on the material which is to compose a new one. Nature is an instructed and impartial teacher, spreading no crude opinions, and flattering none; she will be neither radical nor conservative. Consider the moonlight, so civil, yet so savage!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplici...ty of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours... me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications whi...ch I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »