“Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
— Cormac McCarthy, book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
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