If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning mo...ney.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the i...nfinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, if a "good speaker," never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that ... is there a more... horrid kind of object in creation?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are n...ot speaking to the whole world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of political... discourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were the ... requirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessio...ns upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He ...should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself. He should do the best he can without straining at it. He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return. He won't get it. And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »