Point Du Sable

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or sable:

    “The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    “Miss Caswell: Now there’s something a girl could make sacrifices for.
    Bill: And probably has.
    Miss Caswell: Sable.
    Max: Sable? Did she say sable or Gable?
    Miss Caswell: Either one.”
    —Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)