Occupation: Author Birth: August 24, 1915 Death: May 19, 1987
Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial..
Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight g….
good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power..
You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up a….
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. ….
All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter..
I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse..
Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him..
Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. A….
Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for..
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature..
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refus….
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat..
Any chance beats no chance..
I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation..
And here is our girl, looking-- If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?).
Absolutes are absolutely dangerous..
I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear..
The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire..