Why is light given to one in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more... than for hidden treasures; who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they find the grave?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We didn't come to dig in Egypt for medals. Much more is learned from studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational... finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foundations of Morality: are like all other foundations; if you dig too much about them the superstructure will come tumbling down....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the "American Way of Life" is a fossil of history. What do they care... if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiffassed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frug, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragassing across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that conve...rts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women made a plan to dig their own graves and they said, "We will stand beside our graves because we are not moving from here.... You can shoot and we will lie in our land forever."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, whi...ch nature can't touch with decay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"That corpse you planted last year in your garden, "Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?... "Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? "O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, "Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »