I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'