Famous quotes containing the words selected, short and/or fiction:
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“... all fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
—Shirley Abbott (b. 1934)