Your well-tempered guiding effort keeps your adventurous, enthusiastic, active ever-learning toddler from becoming passive, docile..., and limp, without drive, will to learn, or interest in your company. Your skillful handling keeps her from turning into a bundle of rebellion and unfocused negativism, getting her kicks out of grownups' anger rather than their pleasure and approval. And with experience and growing understanding she gradually learns how to operate relatively easily and peacefully in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralyti...c polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am glad of this war. It kicks the pasteboard bottom in of the usual "good" popular novel. People have felt much more deeply and ...strongly these last few months.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I must make the important distinction between the rebel and the revolutionary. One is in ineradicable opposition to the other. The... revolutionary seeks an external political change.... The origin of the term is the word revolve, literally meaning a turnover, as the revolution of a wheel. When the conditions under a given government are insufferable some groups may seek to break down that government in the conviction that any new form cannot but be better. Many revolutions, however, simply substitute one kind of government for another, the second no better than the first--which leaves the individual citizen, who has had to endure the inevitable anarchy between the two, worse off than before. Revolution may do more harm than good. The rebel ... seeks above all an internal change, a change in the attitudes, emotions, and outlook of the people to whom he is devoted. He often seems to be temperamentally unable to accept success and the ease it brings; he kicks against the pricks, and when one frontier is conquered, he soon becomes ill-at-ease and pushes on to the new frontier. He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stultifying control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, hel...p, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big dea...ls. That's how I get my kicks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »