Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or distance:
“It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)