East St Louis

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or louis:

    The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)