Sal%c3%b2 or The 120 Days of Sodom/versions

Famous quotes containing the words days, sodom and/or versions:

    As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
    Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 10:15.

    The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
    Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)