Gass/places

Famous quotes containing the words gass and/or places:

“Before and After. Yes, with a little work, they can be saved. It is the present, the immediate moment—the During—that is doomed.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)

“The places we have known do not only belong to the world of space in which we situate them for the sake of simplicity. They were but a thin slice between contiguous impression which formed our lives back then; the memory of a certain image is but the regret of a certain instant; and the houses, the roads, the avenues are fleeting, alas! as the years.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)