I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the s...laves of brutal masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange f...or a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point ... they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder ...and doing murder isn't that major.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is ...as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My criticisms are always simple; they are limited to one word:MOmit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and eve...ry page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak words and useless pages I have written; but the law is sound, and every book written without a superfluous page or word is a masterpiece. All the same, no one cares to apply so stern a law to another person. One has right to be severe only with oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My idea is that the world outside--the so-called modern world--can only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive insti...nct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivors--the one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poets--and to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The twenties are tryout years and what motivates young people are two contradictory impulses. The urge to create a structure that ...will serve their needs into the (barely) foreseeable future and the fear of being locked into a life pattern that will ultimately prove unsatisfying or limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in wa...ys that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »