Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
Variant: But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Her reasoning is full of tricks
And butterfly suggestions,
I know no point to which she sticks;
She begs the simplest questions,
And, when her premises are strong
She always draws her inference wrong.”
Upon Lebia Arguing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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And butterfly suggestions,
I know no point to which she sticks;
She begs the simples…" by Alfred Cochrane?
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