Hole Set Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words hole, set and/or attempts:

“I see the horses and the sad streets
Of my childhood in an agate eye
Roving, under the clean sheets,
Over a black hole in the sky.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)