Famous quotes containing the words common and/or practices:
“The last Night that She lived
It was a Common Night
Except the Dyingthis to Us
Made Nature different”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices itan endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)