You go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids r...ead it and they don't hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that. So they have to lay off a lot of their employees. Union employees. Now you've got the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. against you, and they're going to adore you for it. And they're gonna say it with votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry ag...ain. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything... Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in t...heir old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he ...enterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every body knows as much as the savant.... The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Steve, all those things that happened to us, everything that went before, we'll forget it. You'll see. I'll make you forget it. Af...ter it's done, after it's all over and we're safe, it'll be just you and me. You and me. The way it should've been all along from the start.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom al...l the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What chemistry! That the winds are really not infectious,... That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me, That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it, That all is clean forever and forever,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »