Atmosphere/composition

Famous quotes containing the words atmosphere and/or composition:

“The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivabale encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no preciser name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)