"When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness."
Heads Or Tails quotes
Heads Or Tails
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side."
Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails."
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