At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau propounded the need for contracts between the savage and society. The savage also shows that in order to understand the need for...
Samuel Peacock: Savages! Chris: That's my wife, Yakima... my squaw. Samuel Peacock: Yes, but she's... she's... savage! Chris: Si senor, she's little bit savage, I think.
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
You need contradictions to make an ideal.
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.
Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
To endow clock time with numinous meaning <...> [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.
You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.
A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.
Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.
It's not good...Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. - Fausto
