Possession

Famous quotes containing the word possession:

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“... the Ovarian Theory of Literature, or, rather, its complement, the Testicular Theory. A recent camp follower ... of this explicit theory is ... Norman Mailer, who has attributed his own gift, and the literary gift in general, solely and directly to the possession of a specific pair of organs. One writes with these organs, Mailer has said ... and I have always wondered with what shade of ink he manages to do it.”
—Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)

“Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
A lass unparalleled.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)