The 31+ Lance Morrow Quotes

Walter Duranty Helped To Turn The Monster Stalin Into A World Figure And A Hero Of The Leftistwestern Intelligentsia By Defending The Bloodbath Of The Soviet Union From Its Critics In The Now Famous: "you Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking Eggs.

The Church Became Both More Accessible And Less Imposing. It Threw Itself Open To Risk.

The Kiss Is A Wordless Articulation Of Desire Whose Object Lies In The Future, And Somewhat To The South.

The Television Anchorman Dan Rather Turns Up In Rag-top Native Drag In Afghanistan, The Surrogate Of Our Culture With His Camera Crew, Intrepid As Sir Richard Burton Sneaking Into Mecca.

Would It Be Anything Like A Literary Disaster If Gore Vidal Were To Fall Silent? Easy. No. In Fact, There Is Something To Be Said For The Idea.

Africa Has A Genious For Extremes, For The Beginning And The End. It Seems Simultaneously Connected To Some Memory Of Eden And To Some Foretaste Of Apocalypse. Nowhere Is Day More Vivid Or Night Darker. Nowhere Are Forests More Luxuriant. Nowhere Is There A Continent More Miserable

The Jumbo Jet Is The Airborne Equivalent Of The Interstate Highway...one Might As Well Be Stuffed Into A Cartridge And Shot Through A Pneumatic Tube, Like Interoffice Mail.

Vatican Ii Was A Force That Seized The Mind Of The Roman Catholic Church And Carried It Across Centuries From The 13th To The 20th.

As American Productivity, Once The Exuberant Engine Of National Wealth, Has Dipped To An Embarrassingly Uncompetitive Low, Americans Have Shaken Their Heads: The Country's Old Work Ethic Is Dead.

Over The Years, He [everett Dirksen] Developed A Style Of Infinitely Subtle Fustian, Whose Effect Can Still Be Remotely Approximated By Sipping Twelve-year-old Bourbon, Straight, While Reading Dickens Aloud, In A Sort Of Sepulchral Purr.

When Man Sends Colonies Into Space, He Will Be Able To Mount Moveable, Sun-reflecting Mirrors To Simulate Rhythms Of Day And Night And Even The Terrestial Seasons...but He Doubtless Will Follow The Longstanding American Habit Of Thinking That Outer Space Should, As Much As Possible, Resemble Southern California.

Human Ingenuity Has Given Centuries To The Goal Of Ensuring That The Human Body Might Move Around At An Even 68 Degrees All Year.