"Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits."
"It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life"
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Source: The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came? in McCall's, Oct. 1966.
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