Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbl...ing youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates,... and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and bar...n? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the h...our arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority ... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for... their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost--so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish ... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They talked about "sex problems" with such premature candor, with the enlightened frankness of eunuchs who don't know what they ar...e talking about. Nobody here seemed to see any difference between sex and eroticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dangers of mass culture are much easier to define than the ideals. The foremost one, which may negate all the ideals, is an ov...erpowering narcotic effect, relaxing the tired mind and tranquilizing the anxious. Genuine art is demanding and difficult, often unpleasant, nagging at the mind and stretching the nerves taut. So much of mass culture envelops the audience in a warm bath, making no demands except that we all glow with pleasure and comfort. It is this that may negate the range of possibility (the bath is warmer at the shallow end), keep taste static or even deteriorate it a little, muffle the few critical and ironic sounds being made. That premature cultural critic Homer knew all about this effect, at various times calling it Lotus Eaters, Calypso, Circe, and the Sirens, and he just barely got our hero through intact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Psychology is impatience. All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing i...n of the apparent thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at... issue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »