You are truly the generation in the middle! You have at once aging parents as well as maturing children to cope with, and you are ...not granted the deference accorded age, or the indulgence given the young.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulge...nce. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one call...ing in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are to be lifted up to a physical equality with man by placing upon their shoulders equal burdens of labor, equal responsibi...lities of state-craft; they are to be brought down from their altruistic heights by being released from all obligations of purity, loyalty, self-sacrifice, and made free of the world of passion and self-indulgence, after the model set them by men of low and materialistic ideals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly the most obvious ... example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes dai...ly, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman stat...e of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know only one person whom I could count on not to indulge herself in ... conventional falsehoods, and she has never been able, s...o far as I know, to keep a friend. The habit of literal truth-telling ... is self-indulgence of the worst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »