The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wil...ds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother's side!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have known your friend so long and loved him so much, and then all of a sudden you are so mad at him, you say, I could just ki...ll you and you still like each other, because you have always been friends and you know in your mind you are going to be friends in a few seconds anyway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We walk along the cliff, and I feel a sudden impulse to push you over, which I promptly do: I acted on impulse, yet I certainly in...tended to push you over, and may even have devised a little ruse to achieve it; yet even then I did not act deliberately, for I did not (stop to) ask myself whether to do it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudd...en flash of poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.... Instead of b...eing a sudden impulse full of ardour and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where prev...iously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado, The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes, ...>The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.... The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat ... or girl?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:... And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »