Famous quotes containing the words tortoise and/or asks:
“Deathlessness should be arrived at in a ... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“Must we burn Sade? asks Mme de Beauvoir. Now that you mention it, why not? The world is littered with literature. And Sade teaches us little about human nature which we couldnt gather from a few minutes of honest introspection.”
—D.J. Enright (b. 1920)