Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on thei...r minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom... horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let's talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn't mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is sinister, is mean to us in separation;... makes our thin bodies thinner. This fellow Death lacks mercy and is good at counting our days. And Master, you, too, are subject to the plague of jealousy so think: how could womenfolk, soft as sprouts, live like this?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've strung your breasts with a rattling rope of pearls,... tied a jangling belt around those deadly hips and clinking jewelled anklets on both your feet. So, stupid, if you run off to your lover like this, banging all these drums, then why do you shudder with all this fear and look up, down; in every direction?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested, convicted and fined $100. Excuse me ...if I decline to repeat the experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All we know Is that we are a little early, that... Today has that special, lapidary Todayness that the sunlight reproduces Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is one of those distinctions which is obvious, without being sharp or clear. It is obvious, and remains obvious, to every norma...l mind, although when we come to analyze it, we may not be able to rule a boundary line. It remains obvious, as the distinction between day and night remains obvious, though, when we begin to analyze that distinction, we come up against such refinements as dusk and twilight. There is more than one way of characterizing the difference. Perception is essentially a passive experience, something that happens to us; thinking is an active one, something that we do. Or if you don't like this distinction, because of refinements such as the "intentionality" which some have detected (rightly, I would say) in perception, or on the other hand because of the passivity of that uncontrolled type of thinking called "reverie," then thoughts are something that comes from within; perceptions something that comes from without.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocen...t and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.... Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »