As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortun...e to be childless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civiliz...ation will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm right here to tell you, mister. There ain't nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa took up this land seventy years ago. ...My pa was born here. We was all born on it. And some of us was killed on it. And some of us died on it. That's what makes it ourn. Bein' born on it. And workin' on it. And dyin' on it. And not no piece of paper with writin' on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds ...within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After the brief bivouac of Sunday, their eyes, in the forced march of Monday to Saturday,... hoist the white flag, flutter in the snow storm of paper,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This play holds the season's record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an ...odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, fr...om a passing shape, from a spider's web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And like that game with which the Japanese amuse themselves by dipping in a porcelain bowl of water, small bits of paper which, un...til then were indistinct, but, scarcely plunged in the water, stretch, distort, become colored, differentiated, turn into flowers, houses, substantial and recognizable personages,in the same manner all the flowers in our garden and those of Mr. Swann's park, and the water-lilies of the Vivonne, and the good people of the village and their little homes and the church and all of Combray and its environs, all this which takes shape and solidifies, has come, town and gardens, from my cup of tea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives, ...we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My only companions were the mice, which came to pick up the crumbs that had been left in those scraps of paper; still, as everywhe...re, pensioners on man, and not unwisely improving this elevated tract for their habitation. They nibbled what was for them; I nibbled what was for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »