New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd take off all my clothes & cross the damp cold lawn & down the bluff... into the terrible water & walk forever under it out toward the island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?... When will you look at yourself through the grave? When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder... a man works, at brute labour, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But how do we recognize ourselves? How can man know himself? He is a dark and hidden thing; whereas the hare is said to have seven... skins, man can take off seven times seventy skins and still not be able to say: "That is you as you really are, that is no longer mere appearance." Besides, it is a painful and dangerous undertaking to dig down into oneself in this way and to descend violently and directly into the shaft of one's being. How easily he could injure himself doing this, so that no doctor could cure him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thi...eves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all th...e other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ellie: Aren't you going to give me a little credit? Peter: What for?... Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. Peter: Why didn't you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars. Ellie: Ooohh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies.... They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »