It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She has taken her passive pigeon poor, She has buried him down and down.... He never shall sally to Sally Nor soil any roofs of the town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but n...ever one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" "I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." "I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose th...at they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Holly: Oh, Brad, I'd do my act in clown alley or the horse stop for you. I'd do anything if it was just for you. Brad: Pigeon..., look. Out under the sky you know how I feel about you. But under the Big Top one performer's just like another to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When toddlers are unable to speak about urgent matters, they must resort to crying or screaming. This happens even with adults. Th...e voice is the carrier of emotion, and when speech fails us, we need to cry out in whatever form we can to convey our meaning. Often, what passes for negativism is really the toddler's desperate effort to make herself understood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perception...s, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sex is metaphysical for men, as it is not for women. Women have no problem to solve through sex. Physically and psychologically, t...hey are serenely self-contained. They may choose to achieve, but they do not need it. They are not thrust into the beyond by their own fractious bodies. But men are out of balance; they must quest, pursue, court, or seize.... How often one spots a male pigeon making desperate, self-inflating sallies toward the female, as again and again she turns her back on him and nonchalantly marches away. But by concentration and insistence he may carry the day. Nature has blessed him with an obliviousness to his own absurdity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My consolation is to think of the women I have known, now that there is no longer such thing as elegance. But how can people who c...ontemplate these horrible creatures under their hats covered in pigeon-houses or gardens, how can they understand the charm of seeing Madame Swann wearing a simple mauve cap or a small hat surmounted by a straight iris?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »