... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are i...n bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of h...unger! I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands." 'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But it's hard to farm Between the stumps:... The cows get thin, the milk tastes funny, The kids grow up and go to college They don't come back the little fir-trees doLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go t...o bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. S...o you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;... Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I am writing a novel I must actually live the lives of my characters. If, for instance, my hero is a gambler on the French Ri...viera, I must make myself pack up and go to Cannes or Nice, willy-nilly, and there throw myself into the gay life of the gambling set until I really feel that I am Paul De Lacroix, or Ed Whelen, or whatever my hero's name is. Of course this runs into money, and I am quite likely to have to change my ideas about my hero entirely and make him a bum on a tramp steamer working his way back to America, or a young college boy out of funds who lives by his wits until his friends at home send him a hundred and ten dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Things happen to us, all the time. It was like that for a century, and it is again. It's not like here: People always do things, b...ecause you are born with it; you are brought up in this spirit, the active approach to life: "Stand up and go." We were not. We were always passive in our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Films are seen in large, silent, darkened theaters, where intense light beams are projected from behind toward luminous surfaces i...n front. There is an enforced and anonymous collectivity of the audience because, for any screening, all viewers are physically present at the same time in the relatively enclosed space of the theater. In contrast to this cocoon-like, enveloping situation is the fragmentary, dispersed, and varied nature of television reception. The darkness is dissolved, the anonymity removed.... While the aura of cinema spectatorship produces hypnotic fascination, the atmosphere of television enables just the opposite--because the lights are more likely to be on, one can get up and return, do several things at once, watch casually, talk to other people, or even decide to turn the television off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »