The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the ess...ence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Managing Editor: That's rotten. 'Costello slaying starts gang war.' That's what I want. Copy Chief: I'm working on that angle.... I've got four men on it. Managing Editor: Four. You'll need forty men on this story for the next five years. You know what's happening. This town is up for the grabs, get me. You know Costello was the last of the old- fashioned gang leaders. There's a new crew coming out, and every guy that's got money enough to buy a gun is going to try to step in his place. You see, they'll be shooting each other like rabbits for the control of the booze business. You get it. It'll be just like war. That's it--war. You put that in the lead. War--gang war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will jud...ge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply... That liking; and approach so one the tother, Till either grew a portion of the other; Each styled by his end, The copy of his friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like rhetoric, writing is more highly organized than speech. What is more, it prides itself on transcending the boundaries of plac...e and time within which speech must be understood. And writing has propriety. Every writing system seems torn by conflicting impulses. On the one hand it wants to include within its scope all the subjects of language itself. Writing means to be the hard copy of human life. But at the same time every writing scheme has its taboos. Much as writing wants to be inclusive, there are some areas of life it either will not or cannot discuss as well as speech. This propriety is clear in traditional and classical civilizations, where certain themes like personal confession are never entertained in writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men are magnificent--the young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men positively beautiful, with their fres...h complexions, white hair, and admirable neatness. Nothing struck me more than this, and we might copy it to advantage here. As an Englishman grows older he becomes more and more careful in his dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I ...feel like a boy--and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the huma...n subject. I hope it may prove successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can sa...y the letter kills and the spirit gives life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »