The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as t...hey are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic... for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, I do not want that office. When the American people choose a President they require him to remain awake four years. ...I have come to a time in life when I need my sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither ... can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath t...he heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too... high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last--but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable toll... on society--a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and--if disseminated widely enough--should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. It is true we may... come to a perpendicular precipice, but we need not jump off, nor run our heads against it. A man may jump down his own cellar stairs, or dash his brains out against his chimney, if he is mad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fort was the first institution that was founded here, and it is amusing to read in Champlain how assiduously they worked at it... almost from the first day of settlement. The founders of the colony thought this an excellent site for a wall,--and no doubt it was a better site, in some respects, for a wall than for a city,--but it chanced that a city got behind it. It chanced too, that a Lower Town got before it, and clung like an oyster to the outside of the crags, as you may see at low tide. It is as if you were to come to a country village surrounded by palisades in the old Indian fashion,--interesting only as a relic of antiquity and barbarism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the evening my wife insisted to read this journal, and, finding in it such explicit instances of licentiousness, she was much a...ffected and told me that she had come to a resolution never again to consider herself my wife; though for the sake of her children and mine, as a friend, she would preserve appearances. When I saw her in great uneasiness, and dreaded somewhat--though not with much apprehension--her resolution, I was awaked from my dream of licentiousness, and saw my bad conduct in a shocking light.... She comforted me with hopes of my amendment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »