“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
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Dorothy Parker172
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967Related quotes
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you truly had pitiless pity
when you stayed my dart.”
Dispietata pietate
Fù la tua veramente, ò Dafne, allhora,
Che ritenesti il dardo.
Act III, scene ii.
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A Man for All Seasons (1960)
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Like a Hurricane
Song lyrics, American Stars 'n Bars (1977)
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As quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).