He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The mo...re he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the ex...ceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are... only very exceptionally found among artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. I...n most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say..., for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involv...es praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an except...ionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »