The 5307th has collapsed. From a medical viewpoint, they're finished as a fighting unit.... I have never seen human beings in such... condition. They're drained, physically and psychologically drained. I'm not tagging them for specific ailments. I'm simply marking every man in the outfit A.O.E.--accumulation of everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each con...sonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids r...ead it and they don't hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that. So they have to lay off a lot of their employees. Union employees. Now you've got the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. against you, and they're going to adore you for it. And they're gonna say it with votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He said, I'm just out of hospital, but I'm still flying.... I answered, of course, angry, prescient, knowing. what fire lay behind his wide stare,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. de Winter: Mrs. Danvers must be furious with me. Maxim de Winter: Oh, hang Mrs. Danvers! Why on earth should you be frig...htened of her? You behave more like an upstairs maid or something, not like the mistress of the house at all. Mrs. de Winter: Yes, I know I do. But I feel so uncomfortable. I try my best every day, but it's very difficult with people looking you up and down as if you were a prize cow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children, I talks to God and God talks to me. I goes out and talks to God in de fields and de woods. Dis morning I was walking out..., and I got over de fence. I saw de wheat a holding up its head, looking very big. I goes up and takes holt ob it. You b'lieve it, dere was no wheat dare? I says, God, what is de matter wid dis wheat? and he says to me, "Sojourner, dere is a little weasel in it." Now I hears talkin' about de Constitution and de rights of man. I comes up and I takes hold of dis Constitution. it looks mighty big, and I feels for my rights, but der aint any dare. Den, I says, God, what ails dis Constitution? He says to me, "Sojourner, dere is a little weasel in it." I carry no weapon; the Lord will reserve [i.e., preserve] me without weapons, I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »