Mississippi Field Hospital

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi, field and/or hospital:

    ““Where is the Mississippi panorama
    And the girl who played the piano?
    Where are you, Walt?
    The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “An enormously vast field lies between “God exists” and “there is no God.” The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)