“Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam.”

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"The Clothes Moth and the Luna Moth", The New Yorker (date unknown); Further Fables for Our Time (1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

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