Supposed

Famous quotes containing the word supposed:

“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)

“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best—make it all up—but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)