In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, whi...le her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew th...is, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we are in love, the sentiment is too great to be contained whole within us; it radiates out to our beloved, finds in her a su...rface which stops it, forces it to return to its point of departure, and it is this rebound of our own tenderness which we call the other's affection and which charms us more than when it first went out because we do not see that it comes from us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She cried and prayed, but what good are prayers and orations when comes this last hour that the Book talks about: when the moon go...es out and the stars go out and the wax of the clouds masks the sun. When the courageous Negro says, "I am tired," and the Negress stops grinding the corn because she is tired. When there is a bird in the woods laughing like a rusty rattle and those who sing are sitting in a circle without a word and without a sound and those who cry run around Main Street and cry, "Help me, help me! because today we bury our man and he is going to the graveyard, to his tomb, to dust."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me ...>from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind befor...e the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foolish fears of what might happen. I cast them all away... Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay, Among the husking of the corn, Where drowsy poppies nod Where ill thoughts die and good are born-- Out in the fields with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »