Famous quotes containing the words williams, british, writer and/or novels:
“Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“For with this desire of physical beauty mingled itself early the fear of deaththe fear of death intensified by the desire of beauty.”
—Walter Pater 18391894, British writer, educator. originally published in Macmillans Magazine (Aug. 1878)
“Alas! While your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues, with monuments, and with inscriptions to eternalize, if possible, your names, and give yourselves an existence, when this body is no more, why must we be condemned to live and die unknown?”
—Thomas Paine 17371809, U.S. writer and magazine editor. Pennsylvania Magazine, pp. 362-4 (1775)
“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimensof awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)