Everybody comes along at the right time.... Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde was lucky beca...use he came at the right time--if he hadn't gone to court and been martyred he wouldn't be such a cult hero now. Or Jesus Christ--if he came back now he would really be up the shit because there's no capital punishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He slipped his hand and ran away! He hadn't gone a yard when--Bang!... With open jaws, a lion sprang, And hungrily began to eat The boy: beginning at his feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you remember an Inn, Miranda, Do you remember an Inn?... And the cheers and the jeers of the young muleteers Who hadn't got a penny,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Sout...herners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear, and you should not go on licking yo...ur paw like that--as if Dinah hadn't washed you this morning! You see, Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His misfortune was that he loved youth--he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind..., one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace boys and girls, he was its servant. That ardour could command him. It hadn't worn out with years, this responsiveness, any more than the magnetic currents wear out; it had nothing to do with Time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »