Hard Fought

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or fought:

“Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“That name for which you fought does it quite fit?
And is your stubborn silence only tact?
Boys wish to imitate who hear of it
But will you tell them to repeat your act?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)