"I am like a table that eats its own legs off because itâ€™s fallen in love with the floor."

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Source : Cate Marvin (2007). “Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems”

Cate Marvin

#Legs Quotes #Tables Quotes #Fallen Quotes

“Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely”
“I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
“Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.”
“Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one.”
“Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.”
“Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?”

Source : Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Consenting Adult”, p.80, Open Road Media
“O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.”

Source : Attributed, in Langford Reed 'Complete Limerick Book' (1924)
“The greatest homage to truth is to use it.”

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