The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. View quotes by Bernard Malamud
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road (Le rouge et le noir) View quotes by Stendhal (henri Beyle)
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion. View quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? View quotes by Virginia Woolf
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. View quotes by Leo Burnett
It's plot is designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud [on the wind that shakes the barley] View quotes by Ken Loach
