I am what you will be; I was what you are.
There is in certain living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable,
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings.
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you.
No Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
-- MGM executive Irving Thalberg to Louis B. Mayer about
film rights to "Gone With the Wind".
Cerf/Navasky, "The Experts Speak"
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