Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.”
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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American fantasy writer 1973Related quotes
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Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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A misquotation of a haiku by Auden found elsewhere on this page ("Thoughts of his own death" etc.)
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Variant: Thoughts of his own death,
like the distant roll
of thunder at a picnic.