Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come from... such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were fanatical men and women, young and old, all deeply touched by the great rousing call of the revolution, gladly willing t...o fight for the sake of humanity and to sacrifice themselves. There were strangely excited and intense figures among them, believers: believers in this world and utopians who dreamed of eternal peace. And though they were weak and they were few, they towered miles above the miserable figures of the little philistine Ebert and the wooden Noske with his mercenaries, who would soon raise their cudgels and smash them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great... scientific entrepeneurs ... free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids--without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the stran...ge, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eliot dead, you saying, "And who is left to understand my jokes?... My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of poet."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to sm...ash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties.... Thirty years later, we're still stuck with the ["nice" girl].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
indolence read as abnegation, slattern thought styled intuition,... every lapse forgiven, our crime only to cast too bold a shadow or smash the mold straight off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »