[James G. Blaine's] devotion to the public interests, his marked ability, and his exalted patriotism have won for him the gratitud...e and affection of his countrymen and the admiration of the world. In the varied pursuits of legislation, diplomacy, and literature his genius has added new luster to American citizenship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Inside we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the grou...nd and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's a sucker game, Doc. There's probably fifty fellows around town just waitin' to see you get liquored up, so they can fill ya... full of holes. Build themselves up a great reputation--the man that killed Doc Holliday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with i...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nat...ure and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above all ...that exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »