There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon fl...oor in summertime because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This sel...f-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world's affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. "I don't go to question the good Lord in his wisdom," runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, "but I jest cain't see why He put valleys in between the hills."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike--and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two...--are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't go that fast in practice, because I need the excitement of the race, the adrenalin. The others might train more and be in ...better shape, but when I'm racing, I put winning before everything else. I don't stop until the world gets gray and fuzzy around the edges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormousl...y wealthy. It's always so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That ...is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like split...s in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »