This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better, ...we've called the military error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only thos...e, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag--and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty--and vice versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without... perspiring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Met face to face, these Indians in their native woods looked like the sinister and slouching fellows whom you meet picking up stri...ngs and paper in the streets of a city. There is, in fact, a remarkable and unexpected resemblance between the degraded savage and the lowest classes in a great city. The one is no more a child of nature than the other. In the progress of degradation the distinction of races is soon lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly ...after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, ma...king love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »