Zitat des Tages über Aussätzige / Leper:
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.