Famous quotes containing the words american and/or convention:
“[If] Playboys Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth century: I buy it for the fiction and I buy it for the interview.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
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