Days [ ) Defer | Samuel Beckett, 1938

Elliott Erwitt, A Waitress in a Diner taking a Break, New York, 1955

“She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, that since the customer or sucker was paying for his gutrot ten times what it cost to produce and five times what it cost to fling in his face, it was only reasonable to defer to his complaints up to but not exceeding fifty per cent of his exploitation.”

Samuel Beckett, Murphy, 1938

Also:
A little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe | Samuel Beckett, 1957
Book//mark – The Unnamable | Samuel Beckett, 1953
On [:] The charms of prematurity | Samuel Beckett, 1946