Famous quotes containing the words monstrous and/or volume:
“It is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artists work ever produced.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“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)
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