Nearby Bodie was a notoriously tough camp, where "a man for breakfast" was so frequent an occurrence that the phrase "bad man from... Bodie" was coined to describe those residents who were still in the land of the living. So impressive was its reputation for wickedness that once when an Aurora family considered moving to the town, the young daughter of the family finished her evening prayers with a tearful, "Goodbye, God, we're going to Bodie." Aurora ruffled whatever virtuous feathers it could muster and pointed scornfully. Bodie resentfully charged that the child has been deliberately misquoted--that what she had actually said was "Good! By God, we're going to Bodie"!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think men respect women ... [ellipsis in original] I don't think they really respect their opinions. I don't think they re...ally respect their ability to do a job. And, therefore, when it comes to the business of hiring somebody, they're always sort of hanging back and suspicious whether the woman would actually be able to do it. Meantime, these people that are doing this to you are people that you swamped when you were going through school. I don't mean that in a bitter way. I mean this is a fact of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led eith...er to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo- scholarship which actually destroys its object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this re...ason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almos...t as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state, when further beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while mu...ch is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify wit...h themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead--the guy could have been working ...for Andy Warhol!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actu...ally Olive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »