Reasonable Time Lines

Famous quotes containing the words reasonable, time and/or lines:

    “... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “To understand
    The signs that stars compose, we need depend
    Only on stars that are entirely there
    And the apparent space between them. There
    Never need be lines between them, puzzling
    Our sense of what is what.”
    —John Hollander (b. 1929)