“Life is (I think) a blunder and a shame.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor
Source: In Hospital (1908), p. 4
“I felt as if I had blundered into someone else's life by chance, discovered I wanted to stay, then blundered back into my own, without a clue, a hint, or a way of finishing the story.”
The Powerbook (2000)
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