Shared Country

Famous quotes containing the words shared and/or country:

    “[The pleasures of writing] correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader, or—which is the same thing—by the artist grateful to the unknown force in his mind that has suggested a combination of images and by the artistic reader whom his combination satisfies.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
    —State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)