The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He rememb...ered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of the...ir times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and Afr...ican masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.... I would know him, that would r...efuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings:... But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »