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Maybe 1/10 of 1%? The rest of us are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. We pass on; and some day we come, at the end of a very dull lif
by pravda 13y ago
Maybe 1/10 of 1%? The rest of us are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.
We pass on; and some day we come, at the end of a very dull life, to reflect that our romance has been a pallid thing of a marriage or two, a satin rosette kept in a safe-deposit drawer, and a lifelong feud with a steam radiator.
- barrkel 13y agoI thought that sentence was too good for an offhand comment, and sure enough, it's a quote from "The Green Door", a short story by someone called "O. Henry". Not suggesting you're stealing it, probably it is more famous to you, but I'd never heard it, nor of the story, nor of the author before.
- pravda 13y agoI thought he was more well-known! His most famous short story was probably "The Gift of the Magi" but I quoted "The Green Door". http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/ohenry/the4m15.htm http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/grol/ohenry/the4m15.htm