Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population o...f five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, "if you must shoot, shoot straight up!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for a...postles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms--out-moded even in the United States--all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rag...e which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words of... the Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civi...lizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was another island visible ... but we learned afterward that it was not inhabited, had only been used as a pasture for cattl...e which summered in these woods, though our informant said that there was a hut on the mainland near the outlet of the lake. This unnaturally smooth-shaven, squarish spot, in the midst of the otherwise uninterrupted forest, only reminded us of how uninhabited the country was. You would sooner expect to meet with a bear than an ox in such a clearing. At any rate, it must have been a surprise to the bears when they came across it. Such, seen far or near, you know at once to be man's work, for Nature never does it. In order to let in the light to the earth as on a lake, he clears off the forest on the hillsides and plains, and sprinkles fine grass seed, like an enchanter, and so carpets the earth with a firm sward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale, and, though very beautiful, does not approach to grandeur, nor can it much concern one... who has not long frequented it or lived by its shore; yet this pond is so remarkable for its depth and purity as to merit a particular description. It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long and a mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty-one and a half acres; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds and evaporation. The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile. They are exclusively woodland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for the inlet or outlet of Walden, I have not yet discovered any but rain and snow and evaporation, though perhaps, with a ther...mometer and a line, such places may be found.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song....
Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song.
Song of the bleeding throat, Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who ... have already accep...ted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »