Rat/culture/fiction

Famous quotes containing the words rat, culture and/or fiction:

“A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck
And on the king my father’s death before him.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)