In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
The Venetians catalogue everything, including themselves. ‘These grapes are brown,’ I complain to the young vegetable-dealer in Santa Maria Formosa. ‘What is wrong with that ? I am brown,’ he replies....
I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a...
Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.
Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.
Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
But this poor chap is a dangerous neurotic. Polly laughed. So you saw that, Father. I never could. He always seemed so normal. It’s the same thing, said her father, putting the groceries away. All neu...
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
It was the cocktail hour in Priss’s room at New York Hospital—terribly gay.
It came to her that he was going to leave without making love to her. This would mean they had made love for the last time this morning. But that did not count: this morning they did not know it was f...
Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it...
Not knaves, fools.
You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.
The happy ending is our national belief.
He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.
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