#gut

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris. ↗

— Patti Smith

#gutter #i #maybe #paris

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#blister #brow #confound #cramp #galling

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#dead #guts #living #man #modified