Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
War is not women's history.
Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.