An answer is always a form of death. |
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed |
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed |
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. |
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. |
I can see it is very far from being universally well written. I fell into almost every trap awaiting the tyro writer. |
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. |
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. |
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. |
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. |
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. |
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. |
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. |
So I felt this burning summer. In form I might
belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a ravenous self-destroying horde of rats. I am glad there is no God. If there were, I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and insatiably self-centred creatures should be allowed to survive a single day more |
So I felt this burning summer. In form I might belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a ravenous self-destroying horde of rats. I am glad there is no God. If there were, I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and insatiably self-centred creatures should be allowed to survive a single day more |