Famous quotes containing the words shared and/or secret:
“[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)
“Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?”
—Edward T. Lowe. Frank Strayer. Dr. von Niemann (Lionel Atwill)