“We all have to climb out of the pit of desolation, or what is more likely, have to live in it, planting our flowers among the ashes and squirting them with our gaiety.”
Peter De Vries, letter to James Thurber, 1959
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“We all have to climb out of the pit of desolation, or what is more likely, have to live in it, planting our flowers among the ashes and squirting them with our gaiety.”
Peter De Vries, letter to James Thurber, 1959
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