[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to ho...ld the racket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money make...s him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His st...yle in the wildest sense finally killed him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there ...is no imagining what new forms they may assume.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps having built a barricade when you're sixteen provides you with a sort of safety rail. If you've once taken part in buildin...g one, even inadvertently, doesn't its usually latent image reappear like a warning signal whenever you're tempted to join the police, or support any manifestation of Law and Order?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped... people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »