Famous quotes containing the words action and/or figure:
“If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltzbefore the play startsimagines it is going to be....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“And they lie like wedges,
Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end,
And are a figure of the way the strong
Of mind and strong of arm should fit together,
One thick where one is thin and vice versa.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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