Famous quotes containing the words person and/or survive:
“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)