Famous quotes containing the words ascending, melodic and/or minor:
“To do good is like ascending a mountain; to do evil as easy as following an avalanche.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Whose starward eye
Saw chariot swing low? And who was he
That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
Nobody knows de trouble I see?”
—James Weldon Johnson (18711938)
“To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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