Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and wa...ters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculpture ...and painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is ...entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nearest analogy to Dreiser's "personal realism" is to be found in the painter Edward Hopper, who shares Dreiser's passion for ...transcendent writers, for images of trains and roads. Despite his similar choice of "ordinary" subjects, Hopper has written that his aim "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." ... One feels in the awkwardness, the dreaming stillness of Hopper's figures, the same struggle to express the ultimate confrontation of men and things that one does in Dreiser's reverent descriptions of saloons, street-cars, trains, hotels, offices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse... of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of ...my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fash...ions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Lincoln at least you're a man of honor. You said you wanted to dance with me in the worst way, and I must say that you've kept... your word. That's the worst way I've ever seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »