I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any ge...neral notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An isolated outbreak of virginity ... is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment f...rom the single.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns wh...ich he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: i...t is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is...! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object tran...sformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right dir...ection. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »