To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encou...nters only too rarely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally;... She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in... a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man differs from the lower animals because he preserves his past experiences. What happened in the past is lived again in memory. ...About what goes on today hangs a cloud of thoughts concerning similar things undergone in bygone days. With the animals, an experience perishes as it happens, and each new doing or suffering stands alone. But man lives in a world where each occurrence is charged with echoes and reminiscences of what has gone before, where each event is a reminder of other things. Hence he lives not, like the beasts of the field, in a world of merely physical things but in a world of signs and symbols. A stone is not merely hard, a thing into which one bumps; but it is a monument of a deceased ancestor. A flame is not merely something which warms or burns, but is a symbol of the enduring life of the household, of the abiding source of cheer, nourishment and shelter to which man returns from his casual wanderings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're driving along the highway licketty-split, see. You're in a hurry and you're worried about whether you're goin' to lose your... job and whether that blonde's going to be at that drug store tonight like she said she would an' about whether there's enough oil an' that knock in the motor. You see modern man lives in conditions of strain, affect we students of psychology call it. You go along staring straight in front of you, crazy to get someplace and what do you see?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this b...east grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls com...e from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »