After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don't do housework any more--that is, beyond the minimum that is requ...ired in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, the expectation of gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is a g...reat happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning, from one who has had the ill luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life while a...ny power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mo...ve. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Brigid: You're not ... Sam Spade: Yes, angel. I'm gonna send you over. But chances are you'll get off with life. That means i...f you're a good girl you'll get out in twenty years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I told them I'm not going to let Vietnam go the way of China. I told them to go back and tell those generals in Saigon that Lyndon... Johnson intends to stand by our word, but by God, I want something for my money. I want 'em to get off their butts and get out in those jungles and whip hell out of some Communists. And then I want 'em to leave me alone, because I've got some bigger things to do right here at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never wa...s a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so tha...t we can all get off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »