Of Ernest Hemingway, for example, I feel much as I do of Marilyn Monroe, that he was unable to marshal any adequate defense agains...t the painful events of his childhood, and this despite his famous toughness and the courage he could call upon in war, in hunting, in all the dangerous enterprises that seduced him. He was an innocent man, not a naive man, though not always intelligent. Marilyn Monroe offers us a similar paradox. Even when she symbolized an extreme of experience, of sexual knowingness, she took each new circumstance of life, as it came to her or as she sought it, like a newborn babe. And yet this was what made her luminous--her innocence. The glow was not rubbed off her by her experience of the ugliness of life because finally, in some vital depth, she had been untouched by it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle...-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis--German National Socialism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored..., the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goodbye, boys; I'm under arrest. I may have to go to jail. I may not see you for a long time. Keep up the fight! Don't surrender! ...Pay no attention to the injunction machine at Parkersburg. The Federal judge is a scab anyhow. While you starve he plays golf. While you serve humanity, he serves injunctions for the money powers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling--and indeed healthy--to ask why you have b...een given so much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »