“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
Chinua Achebe book Anthills of the Savannah
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination… or a headache.”
As quoted in Daughters of Eve (1930) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192
Variant: A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.
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Variant translation: Absence weakens the minor passions and adds to the effects of great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Maxim 276.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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