I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.