“Live in the layers,
not on the litter.”
Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) poet
From poem "The Layers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6xW41EFoA by Stanley Kunitz
“Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.”
— P. J. O'Rourke, book Holidays in Hell
Holidays in Hell (1989)
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