Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti... You've put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock Yet you pause before your father's door afraid to knockLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,... Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but i...n America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hannah Hunter: Medicine is the most noble and unselfish-- Col. John Marlowe: Sure, noble profession, noble oath, lanterns hel...d on high--so high they won't admit they're gropin' for.... There was a girl, not much older than that boy in there. I wasn't unfair then, understand. Because they used a lot of fancy words that an ordinary section hand wouldn't understand. So I held her down, while two of them worked on her. I trusted doctors then, believed in 'em, because I was in love, and I didn't want to see her die. A tumor they said it was, and it had to come out right away. So they stuck a leather strap in her mouth so she could bite off her screams, while they cut a way to get in there. And what did they find--nothing! Oh, they were sorry. Sure. They made a mistake. They had something they could talk about before their next little experiment. But what about me. They left me beggin' her not to die. And I lost my wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today everything is different. I can't even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce a...nd I got egg noodles and catsup. I'm an average nobody, I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything el...se, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »