Them old masters, when they got mad, had no mercy on a nigger--they'd cut a nigger all up in a hurry--cut 'em all up into strings,... just leave the life, that's all. I've seen 'em do it, many a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him,... then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternit...y. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertnes...s for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hannah Hunter: Medicine is the most noble and unselfish-- Col. John Marlowe: Sure, noble profession, noble oath, lanterns hel...d on high--so high they won't admit they're gropin' for.... There was a girl, not much older than that boy in there. I wasn't unfair then, understand. Because they used a lot of fancy words that an ordinary section hand wouldn't understand. So I held her down, while two of them worked on her. I trusted doctors then, believed in 'em, because I was in love, and I didn't want to see her die. A tumor they said it was, and it had to come out right away. So they stuck a leather strap in her mouth so she could bite off her screams, while they cut a way to get in there. And what did they find--nothing! Oh, they were sorry. Sure. They made a mistake. They had something they could talk about before their next little experiment. But what about me. They left me beggin' her not to die. And I lost my wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »