To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murde...rous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be... called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That only needs a finger touch from God To spring it like a deadfall and the fault... In nature would wipe out all human fault.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. ...The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need,... Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong.... And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice--however much we might desire it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know. That's what makes us tough. Rich fellows come up and they die. Their kids ain't no good and they die out. But we keepa com...in'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good, and they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live.... They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gloucester. O, let me kiss that hand! Lear. Let me wipe it first, it smells of mortality.... Gloucester. O ruined piece of nature! This great world Shall so wear out to nought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »