I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questio...n--to be defended from the beginning to the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do our bodies wear out? Why can't we just go on and on and on, accumulating a potentially infinite number of Frequent Flyer mi...leage points? These are the kinds of questions that philosophers have been asking ever since they realized that being a philosopher did not involve any heavy lifting. And yet the answer is really very simple. Our bodies are mechanical devices, they break down. Some devices, such as battery-operated toys costing $39.95, break down almost instantly upon exposure to the Earth's atmosphere. Other devices, such as stereo systems owned by your next-door neighbor's 13-year-old son who likes to listen to bands with names like "Nerve Damage," at a volume capable of disintegrating limestone, will continue to function perfectly for many years, even if you hit them with an ax. But the fundamental law of physics is that sooner or later every mechanism ceases to function for one reason or another, and it is never covered under the warranty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families wo...uld not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when you do get a job everybody says, "Well, they wanted a black woman," which necessarily puts you on a level where you have ...to prove yourself above being a woman and being black.... Now, I would say, in certain situations, it helped me simply because I was mildly attractive, not because I was black or a woman. That gets you more mileage than anything else.... God help you if you're not an attractive woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... one of those fortunate men who, if they were to dive under one side of a barge stark-naked, would come up on the other with a ...new suit of clothes on, and a ticket for soup in the waistcoat-pocket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to ...visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, the world is not a stage not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not li...ttle theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches ... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles.--That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be.... Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience--let him read someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to underst...and that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »