Straight Year

Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or year:

“Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.”
—Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)

“I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it—”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)