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...have a hell of a nerve appealing to a bona-fide American trade union for help in view of the scabby disruptive tactics employed by your so-called political party against the American trade-union movement and against the United States as a whole...
...year-old revolutionary was ready & waiting, with both guns loaded. "I respectfully propose," he offered grandly, "that the Archbishop bless the hotel in order that, with divine help, it may realize the greatest profits possible, and that he damn my [mural] so that I may go tranquilly to hell. Then everyone will be happy...
...City was far more than buildings and businesses-it was the most dramatic manifestation of the vitality and imagination of the people of the U.S. He could not believe it could ever lose its greatness. Said he fervently, listening to it rumble: "It's a hell of a town...
...understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died in 1938. On the last page of his autobiography Gide wrote: "A fatality led me ... It was the marriage of Heaven with my insatiable Hell...
Talk with the Devil. One thing the Journals make clear: Gide's "insatiable Hell." His daily antagonist is a very real devil. In 1914 he told a friend that what "kept me from believing in the devil was that I wasn't quite sure of hating him." Two years later he confided to his Journals: "When I say: the Evil One, I know what that expression designates just as clearly as I know what is designated by the word God. I draw his outline by the deficiency of each virtue ... he is more intelligent than I, everything...