“People are inexterminable — like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices — that’s us.”

— Robert Frost

"London Observer (29 March 1959)
1950s

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American poet 1874–1963

Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) American software developer

1995/6
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“… I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them…”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks

For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

No known citation to Marx. First appears unattributed in mid-1960s logic/computing texts as an example of the difficulty of machine parsing of ambiguous statements. Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=firefox-a&lr=&as_brr=0&q=%22fruit-flies%22+%22time+flies%22+banana&btnG=Search+Books&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1900&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1970. The Yale Book of Quotations dates the attribution to Marx to a 9 July 1982 net.jokes post on Usenet.
Misattributed