If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us w...ith our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution--then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revo...lution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervour of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizons; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened p...erson draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As is well known (to employ a famous Russian phrase), my books are not only blessed by a total lack of social significance, but ar...e also mythproof: Freudians flutter around them avidly, approach with itching oviducts, stop, sniff, and recoil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the suffering...s of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by care...ful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in thei...r thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys.... Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real th...ing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There, through the broken branches, go The ravens of unresting thought;... Flying, crying, to and fro, Cruel claw and hungry throat, Or else they stand and sniff the wind....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »