Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these... roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and sh...ameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a "possessive" mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl name...d Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: "Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I've known named Maude-Ellen has had warts." Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tomorrow I will discover Sunset Boulevard. Eurhythmic dancing, ball-room dancing, tap dancing, artistic photography, ordinary phot...ography, lousy photography, electro-fever treatment, internal douche treatment, ultra- violet treatment, elocution lessons, psychic readings, institutes of religion, astrological demonstrations, hands read, feet manicured, elbows massaged, faces lifted, warts removed, fat reduced, insteps raised, corsets fitted, busts vibrated, corns removed, hair dyed, glasses fitted, soda jerked, hangovers cured, headaches driven away, flatulence dissipated, limousines rented, the future made clear, the war made comprehensible, octane made higher and butane lower, drive in and get indigestion, flush the kidneys, get a cheap car-wash, stay-awake pills and go-to-sleep pills, Chinese herbs are very good for you and without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I lov...e her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as ...a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called "self-interestedness." This was not a portrait of man "warts and all." It was all wart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »