We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-...destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to... what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incompr...ehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Hope" is the thing with feathers-- That perches in the soul--... And sings the tunes without the words-- And never stops--at all--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The raven is my talisman.... Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force. The one certain thing in an uncertai...n universe. Death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Allusion has been made to [Proust's] contempt for the literature that "describes," for the realists and naturalists worshipping th...e offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »