Donald McGill (1875–1962) British artist
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
Donald McGill (1875–1962) British artist
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (9 September 1918), quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 343
1910s
“Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor
“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" (1922)
“At eighteen you sleep without memories.”
Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963) Turkish poet
From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII
“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer