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A clown who takes to drink falls faster than a drunk tile-layer topples off a roof.
“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
― Islands in the Stream
― Islands in the Stream
“He always spoke of himself to me “as an unskilled laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, with regard to outlook as well as wages.”
― The Clown
― The Clown
“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that mazeis itself an enslavement for it voids every alternate and binds one ever more tightly in to the constraints that make a life.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
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