To Write Is To Make

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A National Catastrophe.

Well, My Deliberate Opinion Is - It's A Jolly Strange World.

I Think It Rather Fine, This Necessity For The Tense Bracing Of The Will Before Anything Worth Doing Can Be Done. I Rather Like It Myself. I Feel It Is To Be The Chief Thing That Differentiates Me From The Cat By The Fire.

Because Her Instinct Has Told Her, Or Because She Has Been Reliably Informed, The Faded Virgin Knows That The Supreme Joys Are Not For Her; She Knows By A Process Of The Intellect; But She Can Feel Her Deprivation No More Than The Young Mother Can Feel The Hardship Of The Virgin's Lot.

Essential Characteristic Of The Really Great Novelist: A Christ-like, All-embracing Compassion.