Fact Crime Book

Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)

“In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can’t improve on these.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)