Famous quotes containing the words selected, short and/or fiction:
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)
“And were an epitaph to be my story
Id have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)