Literature Quotes - Page 148
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.186, Harvard University Press
Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
"United States: Essays 1952-1992 (Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes)". Book by Gore Vidal, May 18, 1993.
"Life Lessons of Wisdom & Motivation - Volume IV: Insightful, Enlightened and Inspirational quotations and proverbs" by M. I. Sek, Providential Press, (p. 37), February 2014.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”
"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.
Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.118, Vintage
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)