Date: 1949-1952, 1953
"Hard, hard work, excavating and digging, mining, moling through tunnels, heaving, pushing, moving rock, working, working, working, working, working, panting, hauling, hoisting. And none of this work is seen from the outside. It's internally done. It happens because you are powerless and unable t...
preview | full record— Bellow, Saul (1915-2005)
Date: December, 1954
"My mind, a vagrant, dreams on the shining Alps."
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Date: 2007
"And at the same time, a censor somewhere in my brain was simplifying things for me, helping me to cope with the necessary."
preview | full record— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)
Date: September 2, 2011
"When we fight an urge, it feels like a strenuous effort, as if there were a homunculus in the head that physically impinged on a persistent antagonist."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
Date: September 2, 2011
"The 'will' in willpower is not some mysterious 'free will,' a ghost in the machine that can do as it pleases, but a part of the machine itself."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)