It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a p...rotest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement ... says heaven and earth in one word ... speaks of himself and his... predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lod...ging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind abo...ut in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville's--deplorable waste of time, and something of temp...er. Nothing imparted--nothing acquired--talking without ideas--if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!--and in this way half London pass what is called life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder!... Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the Hatter [said], tossing his head contemptuously. "I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cauti...ously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I learn music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He wo'n't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. for instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just in time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half past one, time for dinner!" I rarely disobeyed Daddy, both because of my respect for him and because I knew that punishment for my transgressions would be certain and sometimes severe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that eve...ry ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »