And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose f...or us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete; being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and ...tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The rest might wait. The preparations of new carriages and furniture might wait for London and the spring, when her own taste could have fairer play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It so happened that, a few weeks later, "Old Ernie" [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from li...terary columnists and reporters during one of his rare stopover visits between Africa and Key West. On such all-too-rare occasions he lends an air of virility to my dainty apartment which I miss sorely after he has gone and all the furniture has been repaired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down--very important traits in times l...ike these. In fact, just as soon as a dog comes along who, in addition to these qualities, also knows when to buy and sell stocks, he can be moved right up to the boy's bedroom and the boy can sleep in the dog house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carp...ets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important ...one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth ... have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being (esse) is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bias, point of view, fury--are they ... so dangerous and must they be ironed out of history, the hills flattened and the contours ...leveled? The professors talk ... about passion and point of view in history as a Calvinist talks about sin in the bedroom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one attaches a transcendent meaning to the "errors" of comedy, much less of farce. Mistaken identities, misunderstandings about... what some character said or meant, mistakes about bedroom doors--these help to complicate the plot and are all part of the fun. On the level of farce, Oedipus was mistaken about the identity of his parents, he misunderstood the true significance of what the oracle said, and he went into the wrong bedroom.... The difference in tragedy is that the errors are fatal and that, although they can be dissipated at the end, their consequences cannot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »