“Most men and women lead lives, if not of quiet desperation, at least of desperate quietness, and they jump at a chance to talk about their work to an outsider who seems eager to listen.” — William Zinsser, On Writing Well
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Quote of the Day
“A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying.” — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Quote of the Day
“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.” — James Thurber, “The Grizzly and the Gadgets”, Further Fables for Our Time
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