“Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
— Margaret Atwood, book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
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