Automatic Knives

Famous quotes containing the words automatic and/or knives:

    What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.
    Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)

    Through open doors, the dining-room declares
    A larger loneliness of knives and glass
    And silence laid like carpet.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)