Adultery/violence

Famous quotes containing the words adultery and/or violence:

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)

“The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)