Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.
The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.
There’s no sauce for play like work.
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.
I’m tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn’t woman’s work. Any work is woman’s work that a woman can do well.
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it’s ready to serve.
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don’t know what will happen in it.
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
Now gae your wa’sTho’anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they’ll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,‘Weel brook the new’.
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
Men often marry their mothers.
No woman ought to pretend she’s intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn’t.
You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.