The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people... think about us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscled ...suits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and ...on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time ... love lavished on absolute fools. Lo...ve's a charity ward, you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The appalling power with which metaphors of sexual lust illuminate the nature of war, and vice versa, proves that they are based o...n millennia of human experience. The poets of all time have used these figures. To conquer and loot a country is to rape it: to violate a woman is to conquer her by force and plunder her of her treasure. The violence that attends sex when it is unmitigated by love, and the sexual excesses that have attended war and been its aftermath, are the psychological and historical demonstrations of the consanguinity of the two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as... well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have ha...d to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling sil...ence of the good people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, bu...t encompassed by all the horror of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, tha...n once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »