Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a di...re mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We drove the Indians out of the land, But a dire revenge those Redmen planned,... For they fastened a name to every nook, And every boy with a spelling book Will have to toil till his hair turns gray Before he can spell them the proper way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you pl...odded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drif...t across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus roving on In confus'd march forlorn, th' adventrous Bands,... With shuddring horror pale, and eyes agast View'd first thir lamentable lot, and found No rest: through many a dark and drearie Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death, A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, f...or its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »