Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...
Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important ex...
Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.
Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.
I knew by this time what Thea thought of these people and in fact of most people, with their faulty humanity. She couldn't stand them. And what her eccentricity amounted to was that she proposed a dif...
I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When it was time to have them, there was no telling how I picked them from the air.
Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself - Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols. Make it the object of imitation to reach and release the high qualities. Make...
But maybe time was invented so that misery might have an end. So that it shouldn't last forever? There may be something in this. And bliss, just the opposite, is eternal? There is no time in bliss. Al...
What art thou?' Nothing. That's the answer. Nothing. In the heart of hearts- Nothing! So of course you can't stand that and want to be Something, and you try. But instead of being this Something, the...
Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want.I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?I intend to use it. I didn't like the implication...
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.
The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so...
Sometimes I wonder, I said, if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn’t make sure first that they can defend themselves.
On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay about the doorways of butcher shops and fruit stores....
For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be stated Death is God. This generation thinks – and this is its thought of thoughts –...
Being right was largely a matter of explanations.
As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.