Wish I'd said that - October 20, 2020

“I suppose the terrible thing about humiliation is the certainty that one is indeed a proper object of ridicule. While it is happening we can’t feel that it will pass, that it’s only a wretched moment.”

Denis Donoghue in his autobiography Warrenpoint (based on a conversation between Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot) quoted by Irving Howe in The New Republic March 11, 1991