Famous quotes containing the words pocket, monsters and/or advanced:
“The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again.... No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one’s pocket for another meal.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Does frightening women make you proud? Or is pride something monsters don’t understand?”
—Louis Vittes, and Gene Fowler, Jr.. Marge (Gloria Talbott)
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
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