The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere ...in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I look back at it amid the rain For the very last time; for my sand is sinking,... And I shall traverse old love's domain Never again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Expecting me to grovel, she carefully covers both feet... with the hem of her skirt. She pretends to hide a coming smile and won't look straight at me. When I talk to her, she chats with her friend in cross tones. Even this slim girl's rising anger delights me, let alone her deep love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.... When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him.... We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The recovery movement ... is not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intended... audience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Someday our grandchildren will look up at us and say, "Where were you, Grandma, and what were you doing when you first realized th...at President Reagan was, er, not playing with a full deck?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »