Resolution/fiction

Famous quotes containing the words resolution and/or fiction:

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“... all fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
—Shirley Abbott (b. 1934)