Sherwood

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    Time should be imaged with a paint-brush instead of a scythe; he knows how to wield the former even better than the latter.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I’m trying to find exactly what your wife does do.
    Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.
    Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)