Quotes of Cri - somelinesforyou

“ The title refers to the wife's calling for a lost puppy, yet it is clear that hers is in truth a cri de cur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. ”

- William A. Henry III

“ When I heard the word "stream" uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon. ”

- James Joyce
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