Famous quotes containing the words long and/or exact:
“I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.”
—Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
“The really great novel ... tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)