Mr. Blue Excerpt:I told him I was willing to try to love a villain but that I could not arouse any affection for a mere annoyance, an irremediable nobody. "I think I could love a lion," I said, "but I doubt very much if I ever could love a mosquito."
He regarded me seriously. "You consider yourself too much," he returned. "You could love a great enemy. Any healthy man could. Men have boasted that they were to be slain by Caesar. But one needs more than vanity to love a...a...what you call a mosquito."
He meant, I suppose, that I needed special graces in charity and fortitude.
- Myles Connolly
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