No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification o...f Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling ...autumn waters, in the frosts/Of supercilious winter--all my days/I'll have as mentors those reproving ghosts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.... A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Country of hunchbacks!--where the strong, straight spine Jeered at by crooked children, makes his way... Through by-streets at the kindest hour of day,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the bookstore and God was not there. Doctor Faustus was baby blue with a Knopf dog... on his spine. He was frayed and threadbare with needing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »