In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood... before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, hav...e they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: t...hey have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, ...excessive ... and impoverished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atm...osphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale. Or dangerously higher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Sout...herners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to ...enable us to get there.... Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear,... If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains f...rom any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »