The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thi...ng, and then I know it--I don't need to believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color... and I are one. I am a painter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to reme...dy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know, it must have been my imagination, but it makes me realize how desperately alone the Earth is. Hanging in space like a spec...k of food floating in the ocean. Sooner or later to be swallowed up by some creature floating by.... Time will tell, Dr. Mason. We can only wait and wonder. Wonder how, wonder when.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All is changed. All looks strange to me and gives me a feeling which I would rather get away from, although I know it to be the ca...rrying out of natural laws. And I am not complaining. I am doing the same as many old people have done, I suppose, who have led an active life and suddenly find themselves living without a purpose. Oh, my heart is so full. I could write a big book on the subject of going out of this world gracefully.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellow...s, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is n...ot something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
United Fruit... United Thieves Company... it's a monopoly ... if you won't take their prices they let your limes rot on the wharf;... it's a monopoly. You boys are working for a bunch of thieves, but I know it ain't your fault.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »