I think the people over here are coming to realize what would happen if Germany and Italy won a European war. We would be out of t...he picture entirely.... If I were a German conqueror what would I do? Obviously I would have the British navy out of the way and the French army out of the way.... The first thing I would do is look around and say, "What outside territories do I want to take for myself?"... We are not quite ready to take on the United States but we can do it by indirection very nicely. We are going to dominate South America ... without violating the Monroe Doctrine. [FDR set forth a scenario of economic domination of Latin America by giving Argentina a choice of agreeing to German domination of its army by economic blackmail by virtue of the fact that Germany controlled all the agricultural markets in Europe on which Argentina depended for livelihood and the same for Brazil.] It is a perfectly open and shut thing and, if you have the complete, physical power to do it, you win.... [F]rom Hitler's point of view, it is rational. And, if any of us were in his place, with his methods, we would do it. I made myself a hump-back, dyed my skin in several places with great spots of yellow; so that, when I look'd in the glass, I was almost frighten'd at my own figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such... a comfortable front stall as spectator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing... their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Something hangs in back of me, I can't see it, can't move it.... I know it's black, a hump on my back. It's heavy. You can't see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden,--what a sorry set of round-shouldered, sp...indle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administr...ation to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the... fair sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was as bald as a hump. His ears stuck out like teacups... and his tongue, my God, his tongue, like a red worm and when he kissed it crawled right in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Working mother" is a misnomer. . . . It implies that any mother without a definite career is lolling around eating bon- bons, rea...ding novels, and watching soap opera. But the word "mother" is already a synonym for some of the hardest, most demanding work ever shouldered by any human. . . . It is one she cannot easily give up for several decades. It can be slavery, joy in work, a magnificent career. It can be failure or triumph, but it can never be insignificant or unimportant since it is one "job" affecting the outcome of another's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »