Coarse Salt Company

Famous quotes containing the words coarse, salt and/or company:

    “... But a coarse old man am I,
    I choose the second-best,
    I forget it all awhile
    Upon a woman’s breast.”
    Day-break and a candle end.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 5:13.

    All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself—a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.
    Philip Roth (b. 1933)