We don't know any more about pictures than a kangaroo does about metaphysics.... To us, the great uncultivated, it is the last thi...ng in the world to call a picture. Brown said it looked like an old fire- board.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree... In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand, he was in deep depression and had written little of value for a long time. Scott Fitzg...erald, when he died, regarded by the world as a failure, was fighting his drink problem successfully, and was doggedly in the middle of The Last Tycoon, whose quality clearly confirms that his genius was intact. Who was the failure, who the hero? A writer is not an athlete, not a civic leader, not a politician; his personality may be flawed and his life a ruin, but the one fight that defines him is the fight to stay with his work, and not to betray it. On those terms, "poor Scott" was battling in the arena to the end, and his pathos is not the pathos of failure, but the pathos of greatness; and that greatness grows year by year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Adam, it's my guess that the old-fashioned political campaign in a few years will be as extinct as the dodo. It'll be all TV... and radio, it'll all be streamlined and nice and easy. Oh mind you, I use the TV and the radio sometimes, but I also get out into the wards. I speak in arenas, armories, street corners--anywhere I can gather a crowd. I even kiss babies. But that's the way I've always done it, and I must say it's usually paid off. But there's no use kidding myself about it. It's on its way out, just as I am. Yes, yes, this is my last campaign, Adam, the last hurrah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I looked into a liturgy of the Church of England, printed near the end of the last century, in order to find a service applic...able to the case of Brown, I found that the only martyr recognized and provided for by it was King Charles the First, an eminent scamp. Of all the inhabitants of England and of the world, he was the only one, according to this authority, whom that church had made a martyr and saint of; and for more than a century it had celebrated his martyrdom, so called, by an annual service. What a satire on the Church is that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John Brown's career for the last six weeks of his life was meteor-like, flashing through the darkness in which we live. I know of ...nothing so miraculous in our history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »