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September 21, 2006

quotable

"Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity."

- Gustave Flaubert

hat tip:  newsletter of the Southern Illinois Writers Guild

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