Fatal Event

Famous quotes containing the words fatal and/or event:

“The novelist’s—any writer’s—object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)