History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a ...continuity, called "eternal." What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather.... When i...t comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go, throng each other's drawing-rooms, Ye idols of a petty clique:... Strut your brief hour in borrowed plumes, And make your penny-trumpets squeak: Deck your dull talk with pilfered shreds Of learning from a noble time, And oil each other's little heads With mutual Flattery's golden slime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandpa: Penny, why don't you write a play about ism-mania? Penny: Ism-mania?... Grandpa: Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody's got an ism these days. Penny: It sounds like an itch or something. Grandpa: It's just as catching. When things go a little bad these days, you go out and get yourself an ism and you're in business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Penny: Grandpa found the cutest place near where Alice is, right on the ocean. Paul: Lake, Penny. Lake.... Penny: That's what I said. Lake. We're gonna invite you all up to go deep sea fishing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »