“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
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“All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.”
― Leaves of Grass
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.”
― Leaves of Grass
“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”
― Fanny's First Play
― Fanny's First Play
“…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…”
― A Widow for One Year
― A Widow for One Year
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