Any City May Have One Period Of

I Had An Attack Of The Gout Two Days Before Pulling Out, And I Went Limping Off To The War Instead Of Coming Limping Back From It.

It Is Impossible For Me To Estimate How Many Of My Early Impressions Of The World, Correct And The Opposite, Came To Me Through Newspapers. Homicide, Adultery, No-hit Pitching, And Balkanism Were Concepts That, Left To My Own Devices, I Would Have Encountered Much Later In Life.

If The First Requisite For Writing Well About Food Is A Good Appetite, The Second Is To Put In Your Apprenticeship As A Feeder When You Have Enough Money To Pay The Check But Not Enough To Produce Indifference Of The Total.

Cynicism Is Often The Shamefaced Product Of Inexperience.

Any City May Have One Period Of Magnificence, Like Boston Or New Orleans Or San Francisco, But It Takes A Real One To Keep Renewing Itself Until The Past Is Perennially Forgotten.