Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or length:
“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his childs outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the childs innocence.”
—Christoph Meckel (20th century)
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