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“The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.”

World Littles Made Environment Achieve Tragedy Protection Punishment Great Things Pleasant Hostile Nests Defiance Defying Hostile Environment

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.”

Littles Memories Affection Warm Cherish Nests

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?”

Source: The Glass Menagerie