I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be the ...best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until her child goes to school, the Japanese mother devotes herself to the rearing of the child. In verbal and nonverbal ways, she... reminds the child of her deep, deep, warm feelings and that the child is the most important thing in the world to her. Then she say, "After all I've done for you, don't disappoint me." She's like the Jewish mother who says, "What do you mean you're not hungry--after I've slaved all day over a hot stove for you."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come then to prayers And kneel upon the stone,... For we have tried All courages on these despairs, And are required lastly to give up pride, And the last difficult pride in being humble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If in the world there be more woe Than I have in my heart,... Whereso it is, it doth come fro, And in my breast there doth it grow,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up ...this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll come up the steps to the house and the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he'll say, "Good evening, Mr. Younger...." And I'll say, "Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?" And I'll go inside and Ruth will come downstairs and meet me at the door and we'll kiss each other and she'll take my arm and we'll go up to your room to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogues of all the great schools in America around you.... All the great schools in the world! And--and I'll say, all right son--it's your seventeenth birthday, what is it you've decided?... Just tell me, what it is you want to be--and you'll be it.... Whatever you want to be--Yessir! You just name it, so ... and I hand you the world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dubliners, strictly speaking, are my fellow-countrymen, but I don't care to speak of our "dear, dirty Dublin" as they do. Dubliner...s are the most hopeless, useless and inconsistent race of charlatans I have ever come across, on the island or the continent. This is why the English Parliament is full of the greatest windbags in the world. The Dubliner passes his time gabbing and making the rounds in bars or taverns or cathouses, without every getting 'fed up' with the double doses of whiskey and Home Rule, and at night, when he can hold no more and is swollen up with poison like a toad, he staggers from the side- door and, guided by an instinctive desire for stability along the straight line of the houses, he goes slithering his backside against all walls and corners. He goes "arsing along" as we say in English. There's the Dubliner for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a villa...ge.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »