Famous quotes containing the words rope and/or wick:
“Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.”
—Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820–1887)
“Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
—Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)