Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or tissue:
“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)