Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.
“The manuscript lay like a dust-rag on his desk, and Eitel found, as he had found before, that the difficulty of art was that it forced a man back on his life, and each time the task was more difficult and distasteful.”
Source: Barbary Shore (1951), Ch. 14
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“He in the turning dust lay
mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten.”
XVI. 775–776 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.”
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Context: Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 233

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 4, p. 52
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

In an interview with Boston radio host Howie Carr. http://mpbn.net/post/lepage-calls-father-slain-muslim-american-soldier-con-artist#stream/0 (August 25, 2016)