Famous quotes containing the words nurse, angel and/or characters:
“Then Englands ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
Where eer I wander, boast of this I can:
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“And the angel in the gate, the flowering plum,
Dances like Italy, imagining red.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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