“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer
“Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea… down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins… when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes.”
As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 49, ISBN 1446428737
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