Keep things at arm's length . . . If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
 Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades (1936). copy citation

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Author Erich Maria Remarque
Source Three Comrades
Topic distance holding
Date 1936
Language English
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