Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or force:
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluffand I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“In the capsule biography by which most of the people knew one another, I was understood to be an Air Force pilot whose family was wealthy and lived in the East, and I even added the detail that I had a broken marriage and drank to get over it.... I sometimes believed what I said and tried to take the cure in the very real sun of Desert DOr with its cactus, its mountain, and the bright green foliage of its love and its money.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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