My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: "Ne...ver let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly im...agine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I became increasingly anarchistic. I began to find people of my own class vicious, people in clean collars uninteresting. I even a...ccepted smells, personal as well as official. Everyone who came to the studio smelled either of machine oil or herring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,... is sure of being kindly spoken of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the i...nterior of a family, can say what difficulties of any individual of that family may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »