Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated ans...wers. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: "Lieben und arbeiten" (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge... Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday... The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women, Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons Back now, all of them, to their local lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword Carried her whom I called my life away;... Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused--in place o...f the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery--by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press--their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bert McAnny: Now for goodness sake, Green, don't get me wrong. Why, some of my best friends ... Anne: I know, dear. And some ...of your other best friends are Methodists, but you never bother to say it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »