As usual with me I had some narrow escapes. While galloping rapidly, my fine large black horse was killed instantly, tumbling heel...s over head and dashing me on the ground violently.... I was also hit fairly in the head by a ball which had lost its force in getting (I suppose) through somebody else!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head?... How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell. I'll begin it. Ding, dong, bell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who... will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually.... Sex won't take place... in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness ...in the stomach, and other inconveniences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundr...ed bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He doesn't know a damn thing about China ... That's what makes him an expert. He knows nothing about music, being tone deaf. That'...s what makes him a musician ... And he's batty in the head. That's what makes him a philosopher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »