I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the... writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an airhole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell... And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the... victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vien...na M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives li...ves by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Gove...rnor of Massachusetts,--what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my pape...rs, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a t...ime, but there I lived as snug as a meadow mouse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »