“I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.”
Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
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American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982Related quotes

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II. 420–421 (tr. S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang).
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