In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod--always bored, often drunk, doing no penan...ce for my faults--rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame no...r physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a kind of shifting of the balances of my brain, of the way I had been thinking, the same kind of realignment as when, a ...few days before, words like democracy, liberty, freedom, had faded under pressure of a new sort of understanding of the real movement of the world towards dark, hardening power. I knew, but of course the word, written, cannot convey the quality of this knowing, that whatever already is has its logic and its force. I felt this, like a vision, in a new kind of knowing. And I knew that the cruelty and the spite and the I.I.I.I. of Saul and of Anna were part of the logic of war; and I knew how strong these emotions were, in a way that would never leave me, would become part of how I saw the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city... in the USA and that's New York. Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California? Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old. Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years. Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraph...s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism ...which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »