“I find it hard to sit still in one spot, and impossible to sit still in two spots.”
Brother Theodore (1906–2001) German-American monologuist and comedian
“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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