Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails lea...ving one's ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one's life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one's "real" life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sens...e of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfull...y accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The command of comparisons that develops with age is, while no doubt good for the mind, somewhat numbing for the emotions. It is a... wonderful thing to be able to look at an Italian cathedral and recognize the classical influences upon its Gothic, but it is still more wonderful to look at it altogether unaware, altogether open to its fascination. Literature is more thrilling before critical relativity arises; the worst of wine, in the early years of one's life, is better than the best toward the end; and as to your first love, earnestly though you may deny it to later partners and even to yourself, nothing will ever match its ecstasy, laced as it is likely to have been with reckless innocence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too o...ld to enjoy life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse wit...h the other sex sexually, at any time of life.... During twenty-three days in every month (in the absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also, she wants that candle--yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. ..."I have no name: "I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, "Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »