| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18522 |
| QUOTATION: | If that’s how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what’s left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. (First published 1986). “Blocking the Gates to Heaven,” The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991).
Referring to the Big Bang. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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