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“As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.”
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“Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim-- except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.”
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“Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar”
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“I don't play villains, I play very interesting people”
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“Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.”
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“And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.”
Source : May Sinclair (1915). “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium”
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“Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...”
Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”
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“A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.”
