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After all, it is no more surprising to be born twice than to be born once.
~~~Voltaire
"Each time you happen to me all over again."
~~~Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all deadly sins.
~~~Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to
get to it.
~~~Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for
doing anything else.
~~~Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
She spoke with the cold-blooded complacency of the aged throwing earth into
the grave of young hopes.
~~~Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
There's no such thing as old age; there's only sorrow.
~~~Edith Wharton A Backward Glance
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
~~~Oscar Wilde
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none
of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. Being disappointed is one thing. Being discouraged is something else. People are not so dreadful when you get to know them. That's what you have to
remember! It isn't enough for a girl to be possessed of a pretty face and a graceful
figure . . . she also needs to have a nimble wit and a tongue to meet all
occasions. We studied a chunk of Paradise Lost in grade twelve. Milton's Satan certainly
had a lot more going for him than the angels who hovered over the garden,
exuding piety. I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and small, like a cross between Fernand Liger and Dr. Strange, roaring together and vibrating off each other as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of day-glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester schoolbus and told him to go to it. "They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds-" "None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's think, then he says bullshit. If somebody is an ass-kicker, then that's what he's going to do on this trip, kick asses. He's going to do it right out front and nobody is going to have anything to say about it. He can just say, 'I'm sorry I kicked you're ass, but I'm not sorry I'm an ass-kicker. That's what I do. I kick people in the ass.' Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about." Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus." "An LSD experience without the LSD" -that was a laugh. In fact, the heads are pouring in by the hundreds, bombed out of their gourds, hundreds of heads coming out into the absolute open for the first time. It is like the time the Pranksters went to the Beatles concert in full costume, looking so bizarre and so totally smoked that no one could believe they were. Nobody would risk it in public like that. Well the kids are just having an LSD experience without the LSD, that's all, and this is what it looks like. A hulking crazed whirlpool. That's nice. It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go.
~~~Oscar Wilde
~~~Oscar Wilde "The Sphinx Without a Secret"
~~~Oscar Wilde "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime"
~~~Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
~~~Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
~~~Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
~~~Budge Wilson
~~~Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
"But once you've been through that door, you can't just keep going through it over and over again-"
~~~Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
~~~Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
~~~Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
~~~Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
~~~Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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