I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the ...simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God preaches,--a noted clergyman,-- And the sermon is never long;... So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream... Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang f...rom a boot-lace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hear you were seen running through Portugal in used B.V.D.'s, chewing ground glass and collecting material for a story about bou...le players; that you were publicity man for Lindbergh; that you have finished a novel a hundred thousand words long consisting entirely of the word "balls" used in new groupings; that you have been naturalized a Spaniard, dress always in a wine-skin with "zipper" vent and are engaged in bootlegging Spanish Fly between St. Sebastian and Biarritz where your agents sprinkle it on the floor of the Casino. I hope I have been misinformed but, alas!, it all has too true a ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To give pleasure to a few wretched souls; the knowledge that human nature craves the good things of life, in terms of nourishment,... and needs beauty in form and color, as its companion; utilization of imagination and a long-suppressed love of the beautiful to conquer a difficult decorative problem; abiding faith that in all life two things alone are necessary, love and beauty, and that in business as well as elsewhere they are essential to a true success, and, adopted as a business principle will lead to success--these were the foundation stones on which this business, the result of twenty years of hard labor, was laid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cats exercise ... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kin...gdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see slip to the curb the long machines Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette... Shellacked with silk and light The hard legs of our women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »