Fact Crime Book

Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:

“The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)