National Place

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or place:

“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“In this place everyone talks to his own mouth.
That’s what it means to be crazy.
Those I loved best died of it
the fool’s disease.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)