Famous quotes containing the words flush and/or draw:
“F.R. Leaviss eat up your broccoli approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novelfor the eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversionsdid not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“Listen, little Elia: draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and Ill tell you a story.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)