“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.” ThinkingMenWritingBookCharacterStoriesActionHateTurnsNovelAlivePagesUnderstoodHundredSkinsI HateTwentiesAgreeThirtyShedSnakesI Am Alive Author:Kenneth Patchen
“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.” IfsMenExistenceUnderstoodAdversityBullyingBeauty Of Life Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.” MenTwoLastsThreeMediaHe ManUnderstoodDecades Author:Anson Mount
“Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.” MenWritingConversationOrdinaryUnderstoodMethod Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.” MenLongFallAnimalTreeHe ManFlowerSolitudeSpeechUnderstoodRainTongueEasePerceiveRejoiceHerbsDroughtShrubs Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc