Famous quotes containing the words brown, told and/or police:
“Bite down
on the bitter stem of your nectared
rose, you know
the dreamy stench of death and fling
magenta shawls delicately
about your brown shoulders laughing.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“It’s true love because
If he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them
and the next morning I couldn’t get out of bed,
He wouldn’t tell me he told me.”
—Judith Viorst (b. 1935)
“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)