Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure predict...ion fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should hav...e been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silke...n threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has the name of Roosevelt, marked faci...al resemblance to Wilson, and no perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many of the policies of Bryan. The New Deal, which at times seems more like a pack of cards thrown helter skelter, some face up, some face down, and then snatched in a free-for-all by the players, than it does like a regular deal, is going on before our interested, if puzzled eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've noticed over the years that kids who are allowed to be emotionally honest develop a genuineness that more repressed kids don'...t ever seem to acquire. Their words match their facial expressions. Their actions match their words, and they relate from a position of strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is difficult to compare Chaplin's and Keaton's gifts. Chaplin's fertile period lasted 38 years (some say even longer); Keaton's... lasted about ten. Chaplin's art depended upon a minute perfection and precision; Keaton's relied on speed and a tumult of imaginative, farfetched ideas. Although Chaplin the director was more an intellect than Keaton the director, Charlie the character was less an intellect than Buster the character. Although women were important metaphorically in Chaplin's films, sexual attraction and masculine virility were far more dominant in Keaton's pictures. The Chaplin films were smaller--centering on small facial gestures and objects; the Keaton films were larger--centering on human figures against a vast physical environment and huge, complicated objects. The Chaplin films moved slowly and quietly; the Keaton films with great pace and vigor. And yet Charlie was the character who laughed, smiled, and cried, whereas Buster was the one who rarely moved a facial muscle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Osteopath--One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his theory is... to be found in the heads of those who believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in t...he race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The entire construct of the "medical model" of "mental illness"Mwhat is it but an analogy? Between physical medicine and psychiatr...y: the mind is said to be subject to disease in the same manner as the body. But whereas in physical medicine there are verifiable physiological proofs--in damaged or affected tissue, bacteria, inflammation, cellular irregularity--in mental illness alleged socially unacceptable behavior is taken as a symptom, even as proof, of pathology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »