All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values a...nd dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thi...nking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's ac...hievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by th...e associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest "swell," but he simply cannot buy the right things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could... befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »