“The new gets old much faster than the old gets older.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Evil news fly faster still than good.”
— Thomas Kyd, book The Spanish Tragedy
Act I, sc. iii
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
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