“I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.”
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“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”
Notebook E, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
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