England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this p...erson. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense ...a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obvious self-satisfaction of the individual with his own form stimulates imitation and gradually produces the form of the many...--that is, fashion. Through fashion, the many strive towards and even achieve that very same comforting self-satisfaction with their form.--When you consider how many reasons each person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and rendered fruitless by these reasons, you have to be very grateful to fashion to the extent that it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and a mutual and cheerful cooperation to those who realize that they are all bound by its law. Even foolish laws confer freedom and emotional tranquility so long as enough people submit to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are--two breasts.... We must see to it that the man... looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs--and the best--he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of ...the laugh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school,... college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I hate to bring up a subject that may cause you to break out in hives," I said, "but what were you thinking of paying me for each... of these columns?" "We were thinking of something in the high two figures, " Navasky said.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »