It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I shou...ld live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Determination and skill come out of a depth of political and cultural experiences. Women resist and are brave in the most ordinary...-seeming situations: on a welfare line, after being told that medical benefits are going to cut; on a street late at night helping a sister who is being harassed; as a mother demanding that the hospital stop experimenting with sterilization on her daughters; one sister to another trying to convince her to stop shooting up because it's giving the man a victory, swallowing up her life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those great ideas which come to you in your sleep just before you awake in morning, those solutions to the world's problems which,... in the light of day, turn out to be duds of the puniest order, couldn't they be put to some use, after all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromw...ell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here stands the row of enormous stelæ that have furnished the date that links the Mayan calendar to ours. These stones standing g...rimly in line, swelling with the enormous strength of their halfobliterated carvings, still give you, through all the confusion of races and empires long dead, of languages and writings that can never be understood, a feeling of serene order and form... so that after seeing them, the railroad and the guns and the overseers and the loading sheds and the uptodate malaria hospital, all the carefully organized machinery for efficiently squeezing...the sweat and blood of the yellow brown and white mongrel race of workers who live in the rows of company shacks...seems feeble and flabby, not organization at all, not order at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Steve, all those things that happened to us, everything that went before, we'll forget it. You'll see. I'll make you forget it. Af...ter it's done, after it's all over and we're safe, it'll be just you and me. You and me. The way it should've been all along from the start.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it... has passed away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »