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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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mam)<br />

sherman.<br />

‘1 x 1’ (1944) no. 13<br />

pity this busy monster, manunkind,<br />

not. Progress is a comfortable disease.<br />

‘1 x 1’ (1944) no. 14<br />

We doctors know<br />

a hopeless case if—listen: there’s a hell<br />

<strong>of</strong> a good universe next door; let’s go.<br />

‘1 x 1’ (1944) no. 14<br />

when god decided to invent<br />

everything he took one<br />

breath bigger than a circustent<br />

and everything began<br />

when man determined to destroy<br />

himself he picked the was<br />

<strong>of</strong> shall and finding only why<br />

smashed it into because.<br />

‘1 x 1’ (1944) no. 26<br />

Buffalo Bill’s<br />

defunct<br />

who used to<br />

ride a watersmooth-silver<br />

stallion<br />

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons—<br />

justlikethat<br />

Jesus<br />

he was a handsome man<br />

and what i want to know is<br />

how do you like your blueeyed boy<br />

Mister Death.<br />

‘Portraits’ no. 8 (1923)<br />

(i do not know what it is about you that closes<br />

and opens; only something in me understands<br />

the voice <strong>of</strong> your eyes is deeper than all noses)<br />

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.<br />

‘somewhere I have never travelled’ (1931)<br />

i like my body when it is with your<br />

body. It is so quite new a thing.<br />

Muscles better and nerves more.

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