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...Plague take the Literati! My stuff's not literature at all, more like a kind of fertilizer for future literature. Yes, I guess that's what I am, boys, a kind of manure. I know what I'm talking about. I used to write little pieces for the papers, book reviews, tattle, editorials on politics, the usual run of shad, come-day go-day palaver. Then something happened. I remember one day I got kind of a desperation, I put down some lines in a notebook, 'I am the poet of slaves and of the masters...
...fourth that brought Rotary into civic affairs in a very definite way. . . . In the town where this particular club was situated were three civic organizations of the Chamber of Commerce character. They were intense rivals. . . . There came an occasion for community action. . . . The rest is easy to guess. "There was an exceedingly wise man in that town. This wise man simply explained that while the rivals bickered, Rotary went ahead and served...
...leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted his pocket and said: "I have a speech here I planned to deliver but I guess I'll let you read it in the morning newsapers." The nub of the speech was that it is harder to make a rifle than to shoot...
...morning is no pleasure; especially when buckwheat cakes and the Coolidge presidential Vermont syrup stands complacently before the speaker. Who does not sympathize with the President in his unwillingness to devote precious minutes to political topics and thus deprive the White House cheif of justice? It is a hazardous guess but there is a possibility that the Garbo is comparatively wan at the breakfast table that Milt Gross dispenses with his smott crecks, that Galli Curei temporarily quits singing and that Hoppe regretfully lays aside...
...work in propounding a mathematical or physical law, in conceiving a great architectural structure, in finding God. "The operations of the mind can serve our purpose of analysis only while they are moving, unresolved, still at the mercy of the moment. . . . Having examined them, we can guess by what starts and snatches of thought, by what strange suggestions from human events or the flow of sensation, and after what immense moments of lassitude, men are able to see the shadows of their future works . . . the secret--that of Leonardo and that of Bonaparte, like that which the highest intelligence once...