When I am writing a novel I must actually live the lives of my characters. If, for instance, my hero is a gambler on the French Ri...viera, I must make myself pack up and go to Cannes or Nice, willy-nilly, and there throw myself into the gay life of the gambling set until I really feel that I am Paul De Lacroix, or Ed Whelen, or whatever my hero's name is. Of course this runs into money, and I am quite likely to have to change my ideas about my hero entirely and make him a bum on a tramp steamer working his way back to America, or a young college boy out of funds who lives by his wits until his friends at home send him a hundred and ten dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now I am in the public house and lean upon the wall, So come in rags or come in silk, in cloak or country shawl,... And come with learned lovers or with what men you may For I can put the whole lot down, and all I have to say Is fol de rol de rolly O.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck And that should mother seek her son she'd have but little ...luck Because the fires of Purgatory have ate their shapes away; I swear to God I questioned them and all they had to say Was fol de rol de rolly O.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,... In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray, And what's the good of women for all that they can say Is fol de rol de rolly O.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they ...are without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less... need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »