This conflict between the powers of love and chastity ... it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, hel...d in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure.... But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. It would break through the ban of chastity, it would emerge--if in a form so altered as to be unrecognizable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanity--that you're always being suppressed if you're inspired and always... being pushed into the corner if you're exceptional. I won't be cornered and I won't stay suppressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done some...thing, is there an if in the offing--suppressed, it may be, but due nevertheless to appear when we set out our sentence in full or when we give an explanation of its meaning?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among t...he smaller excellencies of lively conversation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventi...ons of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole--so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or eve...n merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human ...tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »