Special Occasion Speaking

Famous quotes containing the words special, occasion and/or speaking:

“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)

“I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“For more than forty years I’ve been speaking in prose without even knowing it!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)