“The playful nip denotes the bite, but it does not denote what would be denoted by the bite.”
From Part 4, section 2: A Theory of Play and Fantasy
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.”
p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”
The Light That Failed http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TheLightThatFailed/index.html, ch. 11 (1890-1891).
Other works
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
Fe que no duda es fe muerta.
La Agonía del Cristianismo (The Agony of Christianity) (1931)
“The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes”
139
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
