#boy cried wolf – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.

Vladimir Nabokov, "On Literature," c. 1970 (via tierradentro)

Source: tierradentro

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