Famous quotes containing the words crime, fiction and/or elements:
“It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)