It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to ma...ke a good patient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the stupid, unthinking world may approve what you have done, in your heart you know that, but for your treachery, the boy... you loved would be alive today. If anyone is responsible for his death, you killed him, and for that murder you will live and die in the contempt and loathing of your own heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful... is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And she, by passion once demented MThat woman out of Botticelli--... She brews and bottles, unfermented, The stupid and abiding jelly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million orators, for their passion for talk was... immediately responsible for all the other horrors ...Oratory prevented Russia from becoming a constitutional country. Oratory tore the Revolution from the patriots and gave it into the bloody hands of the mob. Oratory murdered the Czar, his wife, and their innocent children. Oratory almost wiped out the educated classes. Oratory held the stupid populace spellbound while the Germans invaded the country, boosted Lenine [sic] into power, and paved the way for the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. I never want to hear any more oratory as long as I live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interreg...num. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping--rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas--But, goodness, why need they do it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?" I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid an...d curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It w...as long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »