Famous quotes containing the words plain, text and/or characters:
“It is plain that the reviewers, both here and abroad, do not know how to dispose of this man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There’s a great text in Galatians,
Once you trip on it, entails
Twenty-nine distinct damnations,
One sure, if another fails:”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)