Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.
Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the fron...
We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.
Power, power, everybody like wants power
One can die but once. Dim died before he was born.
Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings,...
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the all...
What I do I do because I like to do.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.
Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.
But what I do I do because I like to do.
Каждый убивает то, что любит.
What's done can't be undone. How do I fit into this new world? I should have been warned, somebody should have told me. How was I to know that that sort of world wasn't going to go on for ever?
Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed: that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.