Golden State Acquired

Famous quotes containing the words golden, state and/or acquired:

“Is it that mens frayle eyes, which gaze too bold,
She may entangle in that golden snare:”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?”
—Terry Southern (b. 1924)

“I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)