I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speak ...for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I met the first of my three or four successive wives in somewhat odd circumstances, the development of which resembled a clumsy co...nspiracy, with nonsensical details and a main plotter who not only knew nothing of its real object but insisted on making inept moves that seemed to preclude the slightest possibility of success. Yet out of those very mistakes he unwittingly wove a web, in which a set of reciprocal blunders on my part caused me to get involved and fulfill the destiny that was the only aim of the plot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, w...hen he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eddie: Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee? Beauclerc: I have no memory of ever being bitten by any kind of bee.... Slim: Were you? Eddie: You're all right lady. You and Harry's the only one that ever-- Harry: Don't forget Frenchy. Eddie: That's right. You and Harry and Frenchy. You know you gotta be careful of dead bees, if you go around barefooted. Cause if you step on 'em they can sting ya just as bad as if they was alive, especially is they was kinda mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way. Slim: You have. Why don't you bite them back? Eddie: That's what Harry always says. But I ain't got no stinger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »