Famous quotes containing the words maximum and/or contribution:
“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanityit had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in ones mind.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“He left behind, as his essential contribution to literature, a large repertoire of jokes which survive because of their sheer neatness, and because of a certain intriguing uncertaintywhich extends to Wilde himselfas to whether they really mean anything.”
—George Orwell (19031950)