
“Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.”
Gustave Flaubert
more infosource: Madame Bovary (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1901), 210.
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category: bear, ineffective, kettle, language, speech, star, words
medium: fiction


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