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“God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“A woman’s life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you’ll learn that soon enough... and the parts that look like magic often turn out to be messiest of all.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“And this mess is so big and so deep and so tall, we can not pick it up. There is no way at all!” Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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