Flush Left

Famous quotes containing the words flush and/or left:

    “F.R. Leavis’s “eat up your broccoli” approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel—for the eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions—did 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 (1940–1992)

    “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
    —Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)