“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”

—  Lawrence Durrell, book Justine

Variant: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
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British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer 1912–1990

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