The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.
I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.
You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.