But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? |
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. |
DeLay knows that reciprocity is the strongest norm in Washington. The clients know they have a relationship and that they have to come up with the money. It's very clear to them, and they do it. |
Discussion in America means dissent. |
Don't get it right, just get it written |
Don't let that chip on your shoulder be your only reason for walking erect |
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead |
Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead |
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. |
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'' |
Even if Boss DeLay leaves, his legacy stays. |
Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is. |
From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing. |
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth. |
He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case. |