but Overall is beyond me: is the sum of these events I cannot draw, the ledger I cannot keep, the accounting... beyond the account:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal ru...les--don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake... as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I writ...e. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've been trying to keep an honest accounting of city monies. You've been dealing with politicians. You've been standing up for ...your own rights, haven't you? Naturally you landed in jail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be coun...ted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little ir...regularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Y'see it's sort of a game with me. Its whole object is to prove that two plus two equals four. That seems to make sense, but you'd... be surprised at the number of people who try to stretch it to five.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »