Protagonist Defeats

Famous quotes containing the words protagonist and/or defeats:

    Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.
    David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, to the film’s protagonist as he dangles perilously from a beam (1982)

    Such simple things,
    And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
    Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)