Actual Border

Famous quotes containing the words actual and/or border:

“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)