Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is... to make a hole in one with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Husband of To-Day ever considers his wife but as a portion of his my-ship. Nominative I.... Possessive My, or Mine. Objective Me. This is the grammar known to the Husband of To-Day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of p...erformance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war wi...ll bear an objective examination of its merits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human visual perception is a far more complex and selective process than that by which a film records. Nevertheless the camera len...s and the eye both register images--because of their sensitivity to light--at great speed and in the face of an immediate event. What the camera does, however, and what the eye in itself can never do is to fix the appearance of that event. It removes its appearance from the flow of appearances and it preserves it, not perhaps forever but for as long as the film exists. The essential character of this preservation is not dependent upon the image being static; unedited film rushes preserve in essentially the same way. The camera saves a set of appearances from the otherwise inevitable supercession of further appearances. It holds them unchanging. And before the invention of the camera nothing could do this, except, in the mind's eye, the faculty of memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinerama scre...en tend to narrow it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of... the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewi...se in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have crossed the Andes, ascended Tenerife, entered Japan, "done" Niagara and the Thousand Isles, drunk delight of battle with o...ur peers (at shop windows), sat at the councils of the mighty, grown familiar with kings, emperors and queens, prima donnas, pets of the ballet, and "well graced actors." Ghosts have we seen and have not trembled; stood before royalty and have not uncovered; and looked, in short, through a three-inch lens at every single pomp and vanity of this wicked but beautiful world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »