No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There... they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavouring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, c...atch some inspiration from heights above our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?...--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They all came, some wore sentiments Emblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the lateness... Of the hour, and indeed the sun slanted its rays Through branches of Norfolk Island pine as though Politely clearing its throat....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or mar...ried to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of hea...t or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chief thing about a woman--who is much of a woman--is that in the long run she is not to be had.... She is not to be caught by... any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation--none of them--not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly unsatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some unsatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a pastoral game, baseball attempts to close the gap between the players and the crowd. It creates the illusion, for instance, t...hat with a lot a hard work, a little luck, and possibly some extra talent, the average spectator might well be playing; not watching. For most of us can do a few of the things that ball players can do: catch a pop-up, field a ground ball, and maybe get a hit once in a while.... As a heroic game, football is not concerned with a shared community of near-equals. It seeks almost the opposite relationship between its spectators and players, one which stresses the distance between them. We are not allowed to identify directly with Jim Brown any more than we are with Zeus, because to do so would undercut his stature as something more than human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »