Elena de la Madriaga: Ladies and gentleman, it seems like if the only embarrassment here tonight is my presence, if the truth will... quiet your unspoken questions, I give it gladly. For five years, I was the woman of the Comanche Stone Calf. He treated me like a wife. The work was hard, the scoldings frequent. And occasionally he beat me. I did not bear him any children. I know that many of you regard me as a degraded woman. Degraded by the touch of a savage Comanche, by having had to live as one of them. You said, why did I not kill myself. I did not. Why, I, I can't. Guthrie McCabe: Well I as hell can. She didn't kill herself because her religion forbids it. You know sometimes it takes a lot more courage to live than it does to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can ste...p out of a railway station--the Gare D'Orsay--and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees--nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swi...ne. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful, Beyond all dreams to restore,... I from the roots of the dark thorn am hither, And knock on the door.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics;... I speak of the infinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »