“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
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Idries Shah 33
writer and Sufi teacher 1924–1996Related quotes

Teasing Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsten during a White House press conference, unaware that Wallsten suffers from Stargardt’s disease and is partly blind.
"Bush shows his sensitive side, telling blind journalist: 'I'm interested in the shade look'" http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1089264.ece, The Independent, June 16, 2006.
2000s, 2006

“…the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.”
Part 2 of 'The Face Of The Third Reich' by Joachim Fest (1999)
Undated
Variant: …the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.

Tears Dry On Their Own
Song lyrics, Back To Black (2006)

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
"Postscript", p. 153.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)