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American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982Related quotes
“Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square.”
A Plain Direction http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15652/15652-h/15652-h.htm#poem_135, st. 1.
1820s
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), Proposition 6.
Variant translations: Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Never a straight thing was made from the crooked timber of man.
Source: Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
“God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.”
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 18 (15 September 1843)
“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
P. 311 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xRbAAAAMAAJ&q="for+experience+teacheth+me+that+straight+trees+have+crooked+roots"&pg=PA311#v=onepage
Euphues and his England
“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”
“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 66
“The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!”
Response to a question in an interview, New York World-Telegram (18 August 1965)
Edie : American Girl (1982)
Source: Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden