
His response to the annoying banality of an interviewer
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Kitty Muggeridge, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3rd ed, 2007) 230:8
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His response to the annoying banality of an interviewer
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““I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.”
Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 (p. 308).
“Life is like a spring dream which vanishes without a trace.”
As quoted in Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu, Chapter 1: 'Wedded Bliss'; translated by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942), p. 968
Variant translation:
Life passes like a spring dream without a trace.
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 156
“All your problems are just illusions that will pass without a trace.”
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
“This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace.”
Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 1 (p. 302)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
Source: The Panther and the Lash