“Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.”
Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Harcraft's Twentieth Century Authors (1954)
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Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 7 (p. 94).
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
On her book When I Hit You in “Meena Kandasamy: ‘If I was going to write my life story, I would condense that marriage to a footnote’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/meena-kandasamy-interview-exquisite-cadavers in The Guardian (2019 Nov 25)
“I always knew children were anti-social. But the children of the West Side - they're savage.”
Quote in: Otto Penzler The Vicious Circle (2007) p. 18
Voices offstage: a book of memoirs, (1968)
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 15: Power and moral codes
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Context: The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. How many changes arise from such an independent mode of life!
Original: Prima di mancare di rispetto ad una persona corretta, pensaci bene. Una persona corretta, tale gesto lo ricorda per tutta la vita.
Source: prevale.net
“270. A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)