“… I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.”
Monique Wittig (1935–2003) French writer
“I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.”
Speech in the House of Commons, July 7, 1926 "Emergency Services" http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1926/jul/07/emergency-services#column_2216, responding to criticism that he edited the British Gazette in a biased manner during the General Strike, as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), ed. Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 152 ISBN 0300107986 <br class="br">Early career years (1898–1929)
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“And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Context: p>The iron ice stung like a goad,
Slashing the torn shoes from my feet,
And all the air was bitter sleet. And all the land was cramped with snow,
Steel-strong and fierce and glimmering wan,
Like pale plains of obsidian.
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In one vast hunger of desire.</p