It is exasperating to see little brown men and little yellow men from the mysterious Orient, and the opaque black men of Africa (t...o say nothing of those impudent American Negroes!) who come to the U.N. and talk smart to us, who are scurrying all over our globe in their strange modes of dress--much as if they were new, unpleasant arrivals from another planet. Many whites believe in their ulcers that it is only a matter of time before the Marines get the signal to round up these truants and put them back securely in their cages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived ...when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then th...ere are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?" I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid an...d curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human... beings out of children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, and ...which sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious track...ing down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »