Mrs. Van Hopper: Most girls would give their eyes for a chance to see Monte. Maxim de Winter: Wouldn't that rather defeat the... purpose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence.... It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent t...o one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores... This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T'enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th'yet unformed Occident May come refined with th'accents that are ours?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And who in time knowes whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores... This gaine of our best glorie shal be sent, T'inrich unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in th'yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th'accents that are ours?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the on...e vent of writing; clings to his form and manners, whilst poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination ...and offer swing and play to the confined powers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear you were seen running through Portugal in used B.V.D.'s, chewing ground glass and collecting material for a story about bou...le players; that you were publicity man for Lindbergh; that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word "balls" used in new groupings; that you have been naturalized a Spaniard, dress always in a wine-skin with "zipper" vent and are engaged in bootlegging Spanish Fly between St. Sebastian and Biarritz where your agents sprinkle it on the floor of the Casino. I hope I have been misinformed but, alas!, it all has too true a ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple redu...ction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The nearest analogy to Dreiser's "personal realism" is to be found in the painter Edward Hopper, who shares Dreiser's passion for ...transcendent writers, for images of trains and roads. Despite his similar choice of "ordinary" subjects, Hopper has written that his aim "has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." ... One feels in the awkwardness, the dreaming stillness of Hopper's figures, the same struggle to express the ultimate confrontation of men and things that one does in Dreiser's reverent descriptions of saloons, street-cars, trains, hotels, offices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into... which we toss our integral tots for processing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »