Double Ten Day

Famous quotes containing the words double, ten and/or day:

    The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
    E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    ... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ... [ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
    Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)