Famous quotes containing the words crime, fiction and/or elements:
“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)