Famous quotes containing the words dominant and/or function:
“Dont you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, youll never be a dominant force in the world? Youll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. Shes in there sitting down.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)