Bruce and Laing

Famous quotes containing the words bruce and/or laing:

    I against my brother
    I and my brother against our cousin
    I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors
    All of us against the foreigner.
    —Bedouin Proverb. Quoted by Bruce Chatwin in “From the Notebooks,” ch. 30, The Songlines (1987)

    Women receive
    the insults of men
    with tolerance,
    having been bitten
    in the nipple
    by their toothless gums.
    —Dilys Laing (1906–1960)