If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A ...conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusi...on defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see--not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's idea in a card game is war--cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement... and burglary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The perfect female is a higher type of human being than the perfect male: and also something much more rare.--Zoological science p...rovides the means to support this proposition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose?... Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days... To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect, you whose garments are hot whe...n the earth is still because of the south wind? Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then ...come, follow me." When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »