...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay even ...in a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention withou...t politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,... An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a person says, "I see a yellowish-orange after-image," he is saying something like this: "There is something going on which i...s like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front of ...his door than any other man can afford.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In front of that sinner of a husband, she rattled off... only those words that her pack of vile-tongued girlfriends taught her as fast as she could, and after, began to behave at the Love-god's beck and call. It's indescribable, this natural, charming path of love, paved with the gems of inexperience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She's in the house. She's at turn after turn.... She's behind me. She's in front of me. She's in my bed. She's on path after path, and I'm weak from want of her. O heart, there is no reality for me other than she she she she she she in the whole of the reeling world. And philosophers talk about Oneness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the author's permi...ssion. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Carry hate In front of you and harmony behind.... Be deaf to music and to beauty blind. Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late For having first to civilize a space Wherein to play your violin with grace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had to have seen the corpses lying there in front of the school--the men with their caps covering their faces--to know the mea...ning of class hatred and the spirit of revenge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »