“Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens”

— Ogden Nash

"Everybody Tells Me Everything" in The Face Is Familiar (1940)
Context: Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

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American poet 1902–1971

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