Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house--in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room... he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and... children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain and drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuou...s. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Over the mountains Of the moon,... Down the valley of the shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,-- "If you seek for Eldorado!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Walter Raleigh might well be studied, if only for the excellence of his style, for he is remarkable in the midst of so many ma...sters. There is a natural emphasis in his style, like a man's tread, and a breathing space between the sentences, which the best of modern writing does not furnish. His chapters are like English parks, or say rather like a Western forest, where the larger growth keeps down the underwood, and one may ride on horseback through the openings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »