The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able... to take the damn thing off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In different life prints, stress will be felt intensely at different times. The woman who is trying to juggle young children and a... demanding job may feel the most pressure in her late twenties and early thirties, but by her forties her investment in the job will be paying off and the demands of the family will be lessening. The woman who has been a homemaker in a very traditional pattern may experience a great deal of stress around the issue of redefining her life as the active role of mothering comes to an end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New Yo...rk is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What knows,--the something over Setebos That made Him, or He, may be, found and fought,... Worsted, drove off and did to nothing, perchance. There may be something quiet o'er His head, Out of His reach, that feels nor joy nor grief, Since both derive from weakness in some way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hol...low-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and th...e animal world begins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boasting is often carried by certain Americans to the extreme. Often however it is a reaction against slights, an effort to veil d...eficiencies, an effort made by a people aware of them, but on the other hand conscious of having accomplished in two or three generations what it took other nations centuries to perform. Generally, human nature revolts at taunts, at arrogant reproof, at undervaluation. Experience and time alone teach a becoming equanimity. European nations bear scoffing more patiently because they have thrown it occasionally for centuries at each other's head. Like old war horses accustomed to the roar of battles, they remain cool and self-possessed. There is on the American surface much to be rubbed off and rounded. Rude angles are to be soft ened, ease, flexibility instilled. Time must do the work. Refinement is a fruit slowly ripened by ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and ...on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you have to keep fighting them off and realize that nobody would be interested in attacking you personally unless you were try...ing to do some things that are bothering them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fai...rest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »