I've met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I've ever met who was polite to me and stil...l made the chills run up and down my back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These st...orms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The generations of thy peers are fled. And we ourselves shall go;... But thou possessest an immortal lot, And we imagine thee exempt from ageLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the issue doesn't matter a whole lot, just drop it. You don't have to win every fight ... and you will not have lost any of you...r authority by giving in when it doesn't matter very much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Louise Bryant: I'm sorry if you don't believe in mutual independence and free love and respect. Eugene O'Neill: Don't give me... a lot of parlor socialism that you learned in the village. If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It would be just you and me. You'd be at the center of it all. You know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some people say the business about the jolly fat person is a myth, that all of us chubbies are neurotic, sick, sad people. I disag...ree. Fat people may not be chortling all day long, but they're a hell of a lot nicer than the wizened and shriveled. Thin people turn surly, mean and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot fudge sundae for easing tension. Thin people don't like gooey soft things because they themselves are neither gooey nor soft. They are crunchy and dull, like carrots. They go straight to the heart of the matter while fat people let things stay all blurry and hazy and vague, they way things actually are. Thin people want to face the truth. Fat people know there is no truth.... Thin people believe in logic. Fat people see all sides. The sides fat people see are rounded blobs, usually gray, always nebulous and truly not worth worrying about. But the thin person persists. "If you consume more calories than you burn," says one of my thin friends, "you will gain weight. It's that simple." Fat people always grin when they hear that. They know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fighter's got to live cleaner than anybody else in the world, he used to say, because a lot of kids look up to fellas like that an...d try to live like 'em.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each pai...nting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, tr...aditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.... Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost--and will never lose--a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »