Famous quotes containing the words alter and/or mann:
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)