Being Abroad Makes You Conscious

Being Abroad Makes You Conscious Of The Whole Imitative Side Of Human Behavior. The Ape In Man.

I Really Tried, Or So I Thought, To Avoid Lying, But It Seemed To Me That They Forced It On Me By The Difference In Their Vision Of Things, So That I Was Always Transposing Reality For Them Into Something They Could Understand.

Labor Is Work That Leaves No Trace Behind It When It Is Finished.

The Comic Element Is The Incorrigible Element In Every Human Being; The Capacity To Learn, From Experience Or Instruction, Is What Is Forbidden To All Comic Creations And To What Is Comic In You And Me.

To Care For The Quarrels Of The Past, To Identify Oneself Passionately With A Cause That Became, Politically Speaking, A Losing Cause With The Birth Of The Modern World, Is To Experience A Kind Of Straining Against Reality, A Rebellious Nonconformity That, Again, Is Rare In America, Where Children Are Instructed In The Virtues Of The System They Live Under, As Though History Had Achieved A Happy Ending In American Civics.