Quote of Krasner in: Eleanor C. Munro (1982) Originals: American women artists. p. 114.
“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”
Source: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 33
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“Man invented the car to comfortably sit in jams.”
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“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
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Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2