Lot

Famous quotes containing the word lot:

“The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)