Twelve Trials

Famous quotes containing the words twelve and/or trials:

    “You always read about it:
    the plumber with twelve children
    who wins the Irish Sweepstakes.
    From toilets to riches.
    That story.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)