Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or sentence:
“If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. Its better to live somehow than not at all.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“Every writer is necessarily a criticthat is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on.... The critic that is in every fabulist is like the icebergnine-tenths of him is under water.”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)