Famous quotes containing the words bartleby and/or kills:
“Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.””
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
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