“When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
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“I should be able to get the alligators to dance to the tune of the pan pipe.”
March 30, 1947
Source: Letters to Milton Hindus (1947-1949), Les Cahiers de la NRF, Gallimard ISBN 2070134296
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