Famous quotes containing the words fixed, point and/or function:
“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“There is a point at which methods devour themselves.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)