Famous quotes containing the words point, land and/or company:
“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; when it, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“In your company a man could die, I said, a man could die and you wouldnt even notice, theres no trace of friendship, a man could die in your company.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)