Famous quotes containing the words hero, comic and/or book:
“Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“And in a comic mood
In mid-air take to bed a wife.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)