Famous quotes containing the words private, copying and/or exemption:
“For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy.... Translation is very much like copying paintings.”
—Boris Pasternak (18901960)
“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
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