"It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics."

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Source : "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

Wilfrid

#Dinner Quotes #Way Quotes #Sanity Quotes

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