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The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.
On Modern Marriage and Other Observations (1986)All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Interview with Bent Mohn in The New York Times Book Review (3 November 1957)
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
