“One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.” PeopleKindLittlesFallEasyAttitudeTroubleSatisfiedTendenciesMaturityOld PeopleTherapeuticReassuring Book:I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home Source: I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home
“Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the Atlantic Ocean famous for its wild horses. I realize that the concept of wild horses probably stirs romantic notions in many of you, but this is because you have never met any wild horses in person. In person, they are like enormous hooved rats. They amble up to your camp site, and their attitude is: We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.” YearsPersonsLawFallRealizingAttitudeMetsOceanLateHumorousConceptsHorseNotionShoesEnormousIslandsCampsProtectedSiteRatsTentsCampingPoopWild HorsesAtlantic Ocean Author:Dave Barry
“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.” ThinkingWritingMeanMatterSeemsFallGamesViewsAttitudeAudienceHearingPoint Of ViewDullProseShallowRestlessFoulBegetsWriting By WritersAmerican Writer Author:Robertson Davies
“The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.” DoeFallStrongAttitudeStepsUnited StatesRiskFeetEnglandDispositionAdaptationPerilEnglishmenVigorousSteps ForwardStand FirmInsularity Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson