Famous quotes containing the words grateful, dead, main and/or career:
“The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman’s career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.”
—Ruth Behar (b. 1956)