I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and ...a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she alread...y feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future--with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial anim...als--have a worse record to show in these "sciences" than in almost any scientific endeavor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He m...ust do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our assembly being now formed not by ourselves but by the goodwill and sprightly imagination of our readers, we have nothing to do... but to draw up the curtain ... and to discover our chief personage on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new c...reation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside th...e other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!... See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushingveils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaos, is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word:... Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »