Famous quotes containing the words minute and/or extract:
“You dont want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I dont want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)
“All my good reading, you mught say, was done in the toilet.... There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toiletif one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
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