Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)