The World Motivation
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
“In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.”
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.