“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”
Stephen King book The Gunslinger
Source: The Gunslinger
“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
P. 311 http://books.google.com/books?id=3xRbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;for+experience+teacheth+me+that+straight+trees+have+crooked+roots&quot;&pg=PA311#v=onepage <br class="br">Euphues and his England
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English politician 1554–1606Related quotes
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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
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