"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 »
The war won't ever be over... too damn profitable, do you get me? Back home they're coining money, the British are coining money; ...even the French, look at Bordeaux and Toulouse and Marseilles coining money and the goddam politicians, all of 'em got bank accounts in Amsterdam or Barcelona, the sons of bitches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put t...hem on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and ...never turns around.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They said I'd never get you back again. I tell you what you'll never really know:... all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and ent...irely true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for the peasant populations of a great part of the world, they aren't so much anxious as hungry. They aren't anxious about whet...her they will get a salary raise, or which of the three colleges of their choice they will be admitted to, or whether to buy a Ford or Cadillac, or whether the kind of TV set they want is too expensive. They are hungry, cold and, in many parts of the world, they dread that local warfare, bandits, political coups may endanger their homes, their meager livelihoods and their lives. But surely they are not anxious. For anxiety, as we have come to use it to describe our characteristic state of mind, can be contrasted with the active fear of hunger, loss, violence and death. Anxiety is the appropriate emotion when the immediate personal terror--of a volcano, an arrow, the sorcerer's spell, a stab in the back and other calamities, all directed against one's self--disappears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »