I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as... excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks an...d as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With all of its bad influences, T.V. is not to be feared.... It can be a fairly safe laboratory for confronting, seeing through, a...nd thus being immunized against unhealthy values so as to be "in the world but not of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red,--it is not even t...he cause of woman v. man. Nay, 'tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes thr...ough our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear you were seen running through Portugal in used B.V.D.'s, chewing ground glass and collecting material for a story about bou...le players; that you were publicity man for Lindbergh; that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word "balls" used in new groupings; that you have been naturalized a Spaniard, dress always in a wine-skin with "zipper" vent and are engaged in bootlegging Spanish Fly between St. Sebastian and Biarritz where your agents sprinkle it on the floor of the Casino. I hope I have been misinformed but, alas!, it all has too true a ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken th...e basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many y...ears, till we've found a new and a better idea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »