Fake Book Volume

Famous quotes containing the words fake, book and/or volume:

    “So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “America is hard to see.
    Less partial witnesses than he
    In book on book have testified
    They could not see it from outside....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “And all the great traditions of the Past
    They saw reflected in the coming time.

    And thus forever with reverted look
    The mystic volume of the world they read,
    Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
    Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)