
“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
Madame Bovary (London: W. W. Gibbings, 1901), 210.buy on Amazon
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“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.”