The vitality of children is clean and honest. Their petty shortcomings derive, in ninety-nine out of a… — Michael Bishop
The vitality of children is clean and honest. Their petty shortcomings derive, in ninety-nine out of a hundred instances, from their effete elders’ pettiness. Contagion is a generational fact. But children can develop defenses against their elders’ spiritual scurvy simply because they’re new.
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