That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is amo...ng the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it,... Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the fifties, for example, the American character appeared with some consistency that became a model of manhood adopted by m...any men: the Fifties male. He got to work early, labored responsibly, supported his wife and children and admired discipline. Reagan is a sort of mummified version of this dogged type. This sort of man didn't see women's souls well, but he appreciated their bodies; and his view of culture and America's part in it was boyish and optimistic. Many of his qualities were strong and positive, but underneath the charm and bluff there was, and there remains, much isolation, deprivation, and passivity. Unless he has an enemy, he isn't sure that he is alive. The Fifties man was supposed to like football, be aggressive, stick up for the United States, never cry, and always provide.... During the sixties, another sort of man appeared. The waste and violence of the Vietnam war made men question whether they knew what an adult male really was. If manhood meant Vietnam, did they want any part of it? Meanwhile, the feminist movement encouraged men to actually look at women, forcing them to become conscious of concerns and sufferings that the Fifties male labored to avoid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forgotten and stinking they stick in the can. And the vase breath's better and all, and all.... And so for the end of our life to a man, Just over, just over and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Plantin' and readin', plantin' and readin'. Fill a man full of lead, stick 'em in the ground, and then read words on 'em. Why when... ya killed a man, why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of... a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because ...this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but s...tick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »