Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have… — John Steinbeck
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
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