Famous quotes containing the words subordinate, courts and/or act:
“The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophatMa token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Is it, in Heavn, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
To act a lovers or a Romans part?”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
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