The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attach...ment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is trut...h, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my face turned toward his, I averted it... and looked at my feet. When my ears clamored to hear his talk, I stopped them. When my cheeks broke out in sweat and goosebumps, I covered them with my hands. But Friends, when the seams of my bodice burst in a hundred places, what could I do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns wh...ich he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The jeweled stripes on the window ran straight down when the train stopped and got more and more oblique as it speeded up. The whe...els rumbled in her head, saying Man-hattan Tran-sfer Man-hattan Tran-sfer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped reading movie magazines in the beauty parlor a couple of years ago because I could not accommodate any more information ...about something called the Lennon Sisters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extens...ions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern h...ighway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The post-office appeared a singularly domestic institution here. Ever and anon the stage stopped before some low shop or dwelling,... and a wheelwright or shoemaker appeared in his shirt- sleeves and leather apron, with spectacles newly donned, holding up Uncle Sam's bag, as if it were a slice of home-made cake, for the travelers, while he retailed some piece of gossip to the driver, really as indifferent to the presence of the former as if they were so much baggage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »