Famous quotes containing the words life and/or threatening:
“One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The language of the younger generation ... has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”
—Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)
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