...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them--business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each... boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Basil: What I meant was, what work do you do? Zorba: Listen to him. I got hands, feet, head, they do the jobs. Who the hell a...m I to choose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;... They, who the written Rule and never known, Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone: To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead; And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the g...reater beggars, but they whose work carves out work for more, opens a path for all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand, he was in deep depression and had written little of value for a long time. Scott Fitzg...erald, when he died, regarded by the world as a failure, was fighting his drink problem successfully, and was doggedly in the middle of The Last Tycoon, whose quality clearly confirms that his genius was intact. Who was the failure, who the hero? A writer is not an athlete, not a civic leader, not a politician; his personality may be flawed and his life a ruin, but the one fight that defines him is the fight to stay with his work, and not to betray it. On those terms, "poor Scott" was battling in the arena to the end, and his pathos is not the pathos of failure, but the pathos of greatness; and that greatness grows year by year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt a...nybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe;... Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self-offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »