The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard L...ampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I read The Sound and the Fury or Middlemarch, I'm filled with the aromas of either book, with past readings and relationships t...o the characters, with a whole continent of language and scenes, but the books don't frighten me. I can enter into their dream songs, and leave at my own will. But if I'm watching Casablanca on the wall, I'll let my eye slip past the phony details, the studio-bound streets, the laughable sense of a fabricated city, and drift into that dream of Humphrey Bogart and Rick's Cafe Americain, which exists outside any laws of physics, like the eternal dream of Hollywood itself, a little dopey, but with a power we can't resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line... And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the ...only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I'm not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if... you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh and blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We shall renew the battle in the plain Tomorrow--red with blood will Xanthus be;... Hector and Ajax will be there again, Helen will come upon the wall to see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come,... When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »