Famous quotes containing the words dead, reckoning and/or plot:
“Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“Goodness shall be repaid with goodness, and evil repaid with evil; never fear; the day of reckoning will come soon.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
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