Provincial Associations

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or associations:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free- floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader’s full attention.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)