“Things as they are have been destroyed.
Have I? Am I a man that is dead
At a table on which the food is cold?
Is my thought a memory, not alive?
Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood
And whichever it may be, is it mine?”
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
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said by the ogre or giant. Now rendered as I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk

Quoted in Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 54.
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“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One

Source: on Twitter https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1316801215083225096, 16 October 2020
Source: Art Talk, Conversations with 15 woman artists 1975, p. 77.