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Old 07-20-2014, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Mari View Post
I looked up the line.
That line comes from the beginning of Henry David Thoreau's Walden . . . cool.
It does? I found a similar citation from Thoreau's Walden (which I had to look up), but the lines are not identical:

Roger Waters: "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"

Henry David Thoreau: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

I also found an essay comparing the social views of the two, but nothing to indicate Waters was referencing Thoreau?
http://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/theamerican...24_117-132.pdf



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