The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask...s himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good F...riday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there is ...a holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except ...as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on ...that, to hit the truth.... No; truth, being alive ... was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade,... The writer and talker free speech and free press.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why don't you take a good look at yourself! What do you see?! A doctor, a scientist, a businessman? You see a scar-faced ex- con, ...a two-bit safecracker, a petty thief who don't know when he made the big time. Where do you come off to blast her! No matter what she's been, what she's done. She's a giant! And you wanna know why? Well, I'll tell ya. Because she sees something in you worth saving. If only one tenth of one percent of all the good in her could rub off on you, you'd be a giant too! But you're a midget! In your head, in your heart, in your whole makeup! You're a midget!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »