“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
“Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”
East and West Poems, Part I, The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin.
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To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic." by Bret Harte?
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