Original Human Torch

Famous quotes containing the words original, human and/or torch:

    “... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt ... [ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “It is the sinner’s dust-tongued bell claps me to churches
    When, with his torch and hourglass, like a sulphur priest,
    His beast heel cleft in a sandal....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)