Famous quotes containing the words book, voice and/or actors:
“I am told that Duclos book is not in vogue in Paris, and that it is being violently criticized, apparently because readers understand it; and being intelligible is no longer the fashion.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“With its baby rivers and little towns, each with its abbey or its cathedral,
with voicesone voice perhaps, echoing through the transeptThe
criterion of suitability and convenience.”
—Marianne Moore (18871972)
“It was modesty that invented the word philosopher in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spiritthe modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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