Famous quotes containing the word racket:
“The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the peoples consciousness, the peoples conscience, freedom and so forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmenthis is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
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