Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Ana...rchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and wh...irlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood wh...ich unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are hedged about, we think, by accident and circumstance; now we creep as in a dream, and now again we run, as if there were a ...fate in it, and all things thwarted or assisted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, wh...atever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What did you hit her for? I'll let you in on something, she's a lush, the lady. After she bends the elbow a few times, she be...gins to see things. Rats, roaches, snakes, bats, you know. A sock in the kisser's the only thing that'll bring her out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane cul...ture. Out of the cave, the tribal tepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anger that my friends... planted in my heart when they somehow found a hole in it ran off like an illicit lover as soon as I saw my man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »