Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)