“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”

Source: Triton (1976), Chapter 3 “Avoiding Kangaroos” (p. 113)

This Life, which seems so fair http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-life-which-seems-so-fair-2/

"The Premature Burial" (1844).

Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)

Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair
Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear
And say out prayers that most need saying
For needful sinners who've forgotten praying;
And in every alcove and niche you spy
The living dead who envy the long since gone
Who never wished to die.

Source: The Princess Bride

Source: Straight Talking

Source: How To Do It (1871), Ch. IV : How To Write
Context: You may divide literature into two great classes of books. The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who had something to say. They had in life learned something, or seen something, or done something, which they really wanted and needed to tell to other people. They told it. And their writings make, perhaps, a twentieth part of the printed literature of the world. It is the part which contains all that is worth reading. The other nineteen-twentieths make up the other class.