"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."
— James Thurber

January 1, 1970

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The Crow and the Scarecrow", The New Yorker (date unknown); Further Fables for Our Time (1956). This is derived from Oscar Wilde's statement "All men kill the thing they love...