Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three befor...e the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young, and so thin, and so straight. So straight! as if nothing could ever bend her.... But poor men would bend her, and doing things with poor men, Being much in bed, and babies would bend her over, And the rest of things in life that were for poor women, Coming to them grinning and pretty with intent to bend and to kill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we avoid hospitals because ... they'll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you stil...l have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like "Exhibit A" and "Exhibit B." Like, "Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, she's in such good shape...." . Most of the time they don't even treat you like a person, just an object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sleep with two cats and the touch of their fur brushing against my naked skin is among the most beautiful sensations I can think... of. They calm me, these animals who could be wild but choose not to be, who go outside to kill and lounge around, then come home every day for the food I provide and for my touch. They bridge me over to that animal country from which I came, a place in which the body poses no questions, only needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, underg...oes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just ...as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women realize that we are living in an ungoverned world. At heart we are all pacifists. We should love to talk it over with the wa...r-makers, but they would not understand. Words are so inadequate, and we realize that the hatred must kill itself; so we give our men gladly, unselfishly, proudly, patriotically, since the world chooses to settle its disputes in the old barbarous way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in whi...ch an opponent--or they themselves--was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry ag...ain. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »