It was a heavy burden on the conscience to know that while you sat in Music 101, some contemporary--as "worthy" of a college educa...tion as you were, but one who had been denied the opportunity because he was poor, or black, or both--was getting his head blown off in Vietnam. Many students believed that such inequity was wrong, but couldn't bring themselves to redress it personally by refusing the student deferment. It's a dreadful combination: to act for self-protection yet at the same time to loathe oneself for acting that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said. (She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.)... The chemist said it would be all right, but I've never been the same. You are a proper fool, I said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face, It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.... (She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.) The chemist said it would be all right, but I've never been the same. You are a proper fool, I said. Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said, What you get married for if you don't want children?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was her stern necessity: all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower,... Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one. Beheld far off, they differ As God and devil; bring them to the mind, They dull its edge with their monotony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless who... is cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the t...ime would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Medusa, come, we'll turn him into stone," they shouted all together glaring down, "how wrong we were to let off Theseus lightly!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »