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Butler's unhappy youth.(Samuel Butler)
A Russian friend of mine, who escaped the Soviet Union for America and who now lives in England, once told me that in his early years in the West he would always introduce himself at parties by saying, "Hello, I'm Alex, I hate my parents, don't you?"
Slightly taken aback, his interlocutors would consider for a split second and then say, "Well, as a matter of fact"--or "Now you come to mention it"--"I do." No one ever admitted to any other feelings about his parents than hatred or contempt: to have done so would have been to lose caste, at least in the intellectual circles in which he then moved. An unhappy childhood and tortured relations with one's progenitors ...
- Samuel Butler 1874
- Reference information from: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations John Robert Colombo April 1, 1994 700+ words
00-00-0000 Samuel Butler 1874 Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth...no man regardeth: O God! O Montreal! The English satirist Samuel Butler visited the old Montreal Museum of Natural History in 1874, where...
- Cravath after Sam. (Samuel Butler to step down as managing partner of Cravath,...
- Magazine article from: Crain's New York Business Gabriel, Frederick June 16, 1997 700+ words
Tough Mr. Butler must soon step down, just as firm adapts...respected and longtime presiding partner, Samuel Butler, is slated to step down in less than...think there will be many," says Mr. Butler, who has been the poker-faced leader...
- Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction and Wholeness...
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Cordle, Daniel January 1, 2001 700+ words
...Force in the Writings of Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Butler and Raymond Chandler. By Ralf Norrman. Frankfurt am...symmetry to explore the writings of Vonnegut, James, Butler, and Chandler provides a fresh and fascinating perspective...
- Samuel Butler. (2 portraits) ; Butler's Monument, St. Pauls, Covent Garden -...
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Samuel Butler. [2 portraits].
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Samuel Butler. [5 portraits].
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Trying times; "The art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient...
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin July 5, 2005 700+ words
SINCE nature abhors a vacuum, let the bishops of the Catholic Church, traditional politicians, the taipans, the businessmen, the gainfully employed professional middle classes, and permanent civil servants be warned that precipitate, unconstitutional, or extra-legal forced change of government or
- FARMING FAMILY BUTLERS WIN BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARD.(SUFFOLK SUN)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Williams, Allison T. March 21, 1999 700+ words
...Two-year-old Samuel Butler didn't know...generations of Butler men. Samuel...generation of Butlers to farm the fertile...Butler Jr., Samuel Butler and Lynn Butler...family farm. Samuel Butler pulls his dad...
