Birney/invention

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or invention:

    “It is not easy to free
    myth from reality
    or rear this fellow up
    to lutch, lurch with them
    in the tranced dancing of men.”
    —Earle Birney (b. 1904)

    “A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)