As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother never ...says "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock- market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of de...ad money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness.... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'E's invisible, that's what's the matter with him. If he gets the rest o' them clothes off we'll never catch him in a thousand yea...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author...--detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked o...ff into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission ...to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to sa...ve the trouble of preparing a drop for him. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off?" He was told to jump.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A baby is a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobod...y tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother--how reading goes out the window and thinking too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »