In Confessions of a Young Man, George Moore observed that an apt quotation could put him on the trail of a book that would bring him intellectual advancement. For many, such a "book" is TIME. Consider this sampling of quotes from the current issue:

"He went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket." See THE NATION, The Use of Power With a Passion for Peace.

"What the parents are trying to forget, the children are trying to remember." See ESSAY, The New American Jew.

"I have told my wife to buy me a coffin.' But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me." See THE WORLD, Toward a Sterner Life.

"We have blood in our eye, hair on our chest and tobacco in our bladder." See THE HEMISPHERE, The Fighting Resumes.

"Even a spicy part can be done seriously." See PEOPLE.

"The nonstudent life tastes like peanut butter, stale bread and leftover booze." See EDUCATION, The Womb-Clingers.

"It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." See SHOW BUSINESS, The Sabbatical Satirist.

"What for is the man to marry, if what he gets is not a woman but an ersatz man in pants?" See MODERN LIVING, Bugles, Bangles & All Woman.

"It is not possible now to disprove the grand speculation that these antiworlds could be populated by thinking creatures." See SCIENCE, Anti-Mirror on the Anti-Wall .. .

"He fired twice, and zip, zip, a round went by each ear. Then he bought me another absinthe. 'Next time we kill you.'" See PRESS, Where the Action Is.

"It's like holding a horse on a shoestring." See SPORT, Shark-Eating Men.

"The elusive 'cause' was almost caught in a net of data--only to escape nimbly through a convenient hole. It is still at large." See MEDICINE, New Look at Diabetes.

"If you wish to believe, love." See RELIGION, "All Life Is a Meeting."

"If you want to shoot a lion, you had better take along somebody who understands lions. Otherwise, the lion may eat you." See WORLD BUSINESS, Local Man Makes Good.

"And if you're not out by 12 o'clock, General Washington, I'll have to charge you for another day." See MILESTONES.

"He is an empty space designed as a human." See CINEMA, A House in the Country.

"I saw that life was crisscrossed with theft like an old coat with grey threads." See BOOKS, A Legend Exhumed.

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