The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of thei...r beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bar ... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable--and, contrary to modern mores, n...o music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn't like to talk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varie...ties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a ...matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the... course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a su...ccess, Mammon grips them and whispers: "More money for more work."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bill: I have champagne, caviar, marinated truffles, brilliant foie gras and half-a-dozen assorted Hungarian gypsies. Lili: So...unds delicious. Bill: I thought we'd go on a picnic. Lili: At three in the morning? Bill: It's the best time--no ants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic o...r imported, which make up our American existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »