Famous quotes containing the words french and/or open:
“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)