In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that anc...ient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgro...wn, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,... The desert were a Paradise, If thou wert there, if thou wert there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His st...yle in the wildest sense finally killed him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our er...rors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child- nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we were at last in Monte Cristo's country, fairly into the country of the fabulous, where extravagance ceases to exist because ...everything is extravagant, and where the wildest dreams come true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A 'spasm band' is a miscellaneous collection of a soap box, tin cans, pan tops, nails, drumsticks, and little Negro boys. When mix...ed in the proper proportions this results in the wildest shuffle dancing, accompanied by a bumping rhythm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No two moments are any more alike than two snowflakes. Like snowflakes, they get that same look from being so plentiful and fallin...g so close together. But examine them closely and see the multiple differences between them. Each moment has its own task and capacity, and doesn't melt down like snow and form again. It keeps its character forever. so the great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night's moment to a day which has no knowledge of it. That look, that tender touch, was issued by the mint of the richest of all kingdoms. That same expression of today is utter counterfeit, or at best the wildest of inflation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever practical people may say, this world is, after all, absolutely governed by ideas, and very often by the wildest and most ...hypothetical ideas. It is a matter of the very greatest importance that our theories of things that seem a long way apart from our daily lives, should be as far as possible true, and as far as possible removed from error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love i...s, beforehand, never. Life can be great--quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »