"Would you--be good enough--" Alice panted out, after running a little further, "to stop a minute--just to get--one's breath again...?" "I'm good enough," the King said, "only I'm not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart aga...in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get th...e two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To coöperate in the highest as well as the lowest sense, means to get our living together. I heard it proposed lately that two yo...ung men should travel together over the world, the one without money, earning his means as he went, before the mast and behind the plow, the other carrying a bill of exchange in his pocket. It was easy to see that they could not long be companions or coöperate, since one would not operate at all. They would part at the first interesting crisis in their adventures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having... lived and killed alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You haf slafed your life away in de bosses' mills and your fadhers before you and your kids after you yet. Vat is a man to do with... seventeen-fifty a week? His wife must work nights to make another ten, must vork nights and cook and wash in day an' vatfor? So that the bosses can get rich an' the stockholders and bondholders. It is too much... ve stood it before because ve vere not organized. Now we have union... We must all stand together for union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't be so ready to defy everybody. Act as if you expected to have your own way, not as if you expected to be ordered about. The ...way to get on as a lady is the same as the way to get on as a servant: you've got to know your place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »