I had got away. That was my victory. The real quarrel with Ireland began to burgeon in me then; I thought of how it had warped me,... and those around me, and their parents before them, all stooped by a variety of fears--fear of church, fear of gombeenism, fear of phantoms, fear of ridicule, fear of hunger, fear of annihilation, and fear of their own deeply ingrained agression [sic] that can only strike a blow at each other, not having the innate authority to strike at those who are higher. Pity arose too, pity for a land so often denuded, pity for a people reluctant to admit that there is anything wrong. That is why we leave. Because we beg to differ. Because we dread the psychological choke. But leaving is only conditional. The person you are is anathema to the person you would like to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness or feeling than now, nor with a fuller pu...rpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgement, I consistently can. But you must act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the form...er, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits... depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Junk is the ideal product ... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to ...buy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do n...ot yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a philanthropist in general, and a friend to the Polynesians in particular, I hope that these Edens of the South Seas, blessed ...with fertile soils and peopled with happy natives, many being yet uncontaminated by the contact of civilization, will long remain unspoiled in their simplicity, beauty, and purity. And as for annexation, I beg to offer up an earnest prayer--and I entreat all present and all Christians to join me in it--that the banns of that union should be forbidden until we have found for ourselves a civilization morally, mentally, and physically higher than one which has culminated in almshouses, prisons, and hospitals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »