Famous quotes containing the word minor:
“For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. Thats why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.”
—Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (18531917)
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