Special Hands

Famous quotes containing the words special and/or hands:

    In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.
    Don Delillo (b. 1926)

    It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)