The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes--...thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a ...chance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its ci...tizens by narrow statutes. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression of that will by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Yesterday I saw God. What did he look like? Well, in the afternoon I climbed up a ladder--he as a cheap cabin in the... country, like Monroe, NY the chicken farms in the wood. He was a lonely old man with a white beard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they'll outgrow the garden,... And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes Have lost the light that bites or terrifies.... There are no swans and swallows any more. The people settled for chicken and shut the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Joe's Eats You get your fish or chicken on meat platters.... With coleslaw, macaroni, candied sweets, Coffee and apple pie. You go out full. (The end is--isn't it?--all that really matters.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eager...ly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale "crush me and eat me!"Mfor us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, teaplant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »