A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. |
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question |
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. |
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism |
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism |
Climbing up in the attic. |
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. |
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. |
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. |
Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. |
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. |
I just know that wherever he is, he knows she's doing well and knows what a powerful impact he had on her ? and he's proud of her. She feels a strong conviction to carry on, stay sober and work hard in his memory. |
I kept pouring water over her head. |
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self. |
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. |