Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, c...arry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur,... The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be ...compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she s...hould find them and they find her, but she had been whipped like a cur dog, and run off down a back road after things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lear. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Gloucester. Ay, sir.... Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moneys is your suit. What should I say to you? Should I not say,... "Hath a dog money? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?" Or Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this: "Fair sir, you spat on me on Wednesday last, You spurned me such a day, another time You called me dog; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »