The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything—I am being sympathetic, not satiric—for the very best reasons.
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“Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden’s Poetry”, p. 149Randall Jarrell
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will never be built.
Van Jones
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Philip Roth
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar — perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.
George S. Patton
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
Ian Kershaw
All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
Ernest Hemingway
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