Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.