“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sand and Foam (1926)

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Khalil Gibran 111

Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883–1931

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Lost December

“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?”

Jack Vance Dying Earth

Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"

“What strange creatures brothers are!”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

“Disarmament without checks is but a shadow — and a community without law is but a shell.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

1961, UN speech

“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“Have you noticed anything strange about him?
Strange? We humans insist on inhabiting a charnel ground - isn't that strange enough for spiritual creatures without splitting hairs?
He seems to be two different men. His personality switches from moment to moment.
Only two? Perhaps there is something wrong with your eyes. Look more closely and you will see he changes with every exhalation. So do I. So do you.”

John Burdett book Bangkok Haunts

Bangkok Haunts, Ch. 22.

“I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Source: Death Before Bedtime

“We need a backbone, not a wishbone.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“At breaking the backbone on the people's rights.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet

Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood

“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

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