Prophetic Biography/early Compilations of S%c4%abra

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic, biography and/or early:

    “I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)