“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.”

—  T.S. Eliot , book The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land

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20th century English author 1888–1965

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