America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically mor...e of an American than his parents.... Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in "Upstairs, Downstairs" called "betters." Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,... for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young lady called Gloria Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier... And then by six men And Sir Gerald again And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes r...egretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since childhood, I have been enchanted by the fact and the symbolism of the right hand and the left--the one the doer, the other t...he dreamer. The right is order and lawfulness, le droit. Its beauties are those of geometry and taut implication. Reaching for knowledge with the right hand is science. Yet to say only that much of science is to overlook one of its excitements, for the great hypotheses of science are gifts carried in the right hand. Of the left hand we say that it is awkward and, while it has been proposed that art students can seduce their proper hand to more expressiveness by drawing first with the left, we nonetheless suspect this function. The French speak of the illegitimate descendent as being à main gauche, and, though the heart is virtually at the center of the thoracic cavity, we listen for it on the left. Sentiment, intuition, bastardy. And should we say that reaching for knowledge with the left hand is art? Again it is not enough, for as surely as the recital of a daydream differs from the well-wrought tale, there is a barrier between undisciplined fantasy and art. To climb the barrier requires a right hand adept at technique and artifice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Diègue: Rodrigue, have you any courage? Don Rodrigue: If you weren't my father, you would have a taste of it on the spot.... ("Rodrigue, as-tu du coeur?" "Tout autre que mon père/L'éprouverait sur l'heure.")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
L'amour pour lui, pour le corps humain, c'est de même un intérêt extrêmement humanitaire et une puissance plus éducative que ...toute la pédagogie du monde!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »