Tense Root

Famous quotes containing the words tense and/or root:

“A pathological business, writing, don’t you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)

“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)