Higher Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or stakes:

“The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)