“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: Challenger Deep
“You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash!”
To the umpire, spectators and reporters at Wimbledon, quoted in Time (December 28, 1981)
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