Children must eventually train their own children, and any impoverishment of their impulse life, for the sake of avoiding friction..., must be considered a possible liability affecting more than one lifetimeLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whore...oscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog ...enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter, or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to use ...language in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »