I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd take off all my clothes & cross the damp cold lawn & down the bluff... into the terrible water & walk forever under it out toward the island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Odors from decaying food wafting through the air when the door is opened, colorful mold growing between a wet gym uniform and the ...damp carpet underneath, and the complete supply of bath towels scattered throughout the bedroom can become wonderful opportunities to help your teenager learn once again that the art of living in a community requires compromise, negotiation, and consensus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not becom...e picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondenc...y of uneasy egoism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, sir, I possessed ... the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduce...d to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close... your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »