So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swall...owing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Classical style, he said, is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the ...manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all over ...the place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that... we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family.... We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, m...ake my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and s...atisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord bec...ause humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels are made for me. I can change a ...hotel room so thoroughly that even its proprietor doesn't recognize it.... I edit people's clothes, dressing them infallibly in the right lines.... I change everyone's coiffure--except those that please me--and these I gaze at with such satisfaction that I become suspect, I edit people's tones of voice, their laughter, their words. I change their gestures, their photographs. I change the books I read, the music I hear ... It's this incessant, unavoidable observation, this need to distinguish and impose, that has made me an editor. I can't make things. I can only revise what has been made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found s...atisfaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »