My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way.... I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs--unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and ...felony criminal defendents who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be ... better to be judged by one's superiors than by one's peers. ...In a trial before his superiors, any criminal would... stand a chance of justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten ...to to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all... other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thous...and others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace fo...r you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight... Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »