The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of fem...inine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do no...t help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,... Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them... out, but they gave her blisters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than our...s. It is just that so often they live till their hair is white. They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers. . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive vi...olin it held has broken and lost its worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his ...own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »