Eyes--the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On... sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so they... don't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pornography is not objectionable simply because it arouses sexual desire or lust or prurience in the mind of the reader or spectat...or; this is a silly Victorian notion. A great many nonpornographic works--including some parts of the Bible--excite sexual desire very successfully. What is distinctive about pornography is that, in the words of D.H. Lawrence, it attempts "to do dirt on [sex].... [It is an] insult to a vital human relationship." In other words, pornography differs from erotic art in that its whole purpose is to treat human beings obscenely, to deprive human beings of their specifically human dimension. That is what obscenity is all about. It is light years removed from any kind of carefree sensuality--there is no continuum between Fielding's Tom Jones and the Marquis de Sade's Justine. These works have quite opposite intentions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... dealing with being a lesbian--and part of that is by being politically activist--has caused me to have a less carefree adolesc...ence. But I don't think that's a bad thing. It has its rewards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety t...o a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zola: I need someone to remind me of the old, struggling, carefree days. Fighting for a foothold. Paul Cézanne: You can neve...r go back to it. And I never left it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »