A new kind of award has been added--the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all,... or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent. Not all the coal that is dug warms the world. It remains indifferent to the lives of ...those who risk their life and health down in the blackness of the earth; who crawl through dark, choking crevices with only a bit of lamp on their caps to light their silent way; whose backs are bent with toil, whose very bones ache, whose happiness is sleep, and whose peace is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is sometimes said that Christianity has always had its own form of psychoanalysis in the practice of confession.... It is true ...that a skilled confessor will compel the penitent to examine his mind more carefully and honestly than he has been doing, but he still works only on the conscious level. The psychoanalyst, on the other hand, tries to pierce through the conscious level to penetrate and expose the unconscious, and he works chiefly there. He does not call on the patient's willpower, but endeavors to get him to relax, making much more use of the patient's imagination. Further, he is not concerned with passing moral judgments on his patient's behavior or, at any rate directly, with strengthening him morally.... He tries to clear away the rubbish that is choking the spring of life and is not concerned with what happens to the stream when he has restored the flow. The confessor on the other hand is pre-occupied with directing the flow into the right channels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They live (when they live) in fear of blinding, of burning, of choking under a... mushroom cloud in the year of the roach. And they want (like us) the eternity of today, they want this fear to be struck out at once....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She sang a song that sounds like life; I mean it was sad. Délira knew no other types of songs. She didn't sing loud, and the song... had no words. It was sung with closed lips and it stayed down in one's throat.... Life is what taught them, these Negresses, to sing as if they were choking back sobs. It is a song that always ends with a beginning anew because this song is the picture of misery, and tell me, does misery ever end?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May they turn sour. May many mean things happen upon them, no shepherds, no dogs,... a blight of the skin, a mange of the wool, and they will die eating foreign money, choking on its green alphabet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,... Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of i...ndustry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish... to ease his lot by all possible means--except by getting off his back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »