Famous quotes containing the words volume and/or work:
“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)
“But he had gone his way, the grass all mown,
And I must be, as he had been,alone,
As all must be, I said within my heart,
Whether they work together or apart.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)