Brown State Wayside

Famous quotes containing the words brown, state and/or wayside:

    “Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
    Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
    Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
    stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
    —Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

    “Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)