Left Hand Point

Famous quotes containing the words left, hand and/or point:

    All morning the
    Morning has been blackening,

    A flower left out.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
    If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 4–5)

    The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.
    Doris Lessing (b. 1919)