The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all... ages of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating ...back to them, poisoned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hand...s, of her bosom, of her knees, of her hair, of her supple and floating clothes, ... has contracted from this contact a tender skin and a distinct accent, a kind of androgyny without which the harshest and most masculine genius remains, as far as perfection in art is concerned, an incomplete being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating b...ulwark of the island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fa...shions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free- floating disagr...eeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »