I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her... killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.... Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte, And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young ...couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive at... the precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer ... writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next,... and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... I'll talk to you, old woman, afterward. I've got some news that maybe isn't news.... What are they trying to do to me, these two?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »