Sydney Carroll

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    Besides, you start drinking whiskey gambling, it gives you an excuse for losing. That’s something you don’t need, an excuse for losing.
    Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Bert Gordon (George C. Scott)

    What is more hopelessly uninteresting than accomplished liberty? Great swarming, teeming Sydney flowing out into these myriads of bungalows, like shallow waters spreading, undyked. And what then? Nothing. No inner life, no high command, no interest in anything finally.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    So the Snark found the verdict, although as it owned,
    It was spent with the toils of the day:
    When it said the word ‘GUILTY!’ the Jury all groaned,
    And some of them fainted away.
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)