A forest is the poor man's overcoat.
The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.
The guest who outstays his fellow-guests loses his overcoat.
The guest who outstays his fellow guests loses his overcoat.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.
The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?
Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.
We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, an...
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
