Laura answers “any good quotes?” — The Odyssey of Homer Q&A

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any good quotes?

Laura "If a god will wreck me yet again on the wine-dark sea, I can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure. Much have I suffered, labored long and …more"If a god will wreck me yet again on the wine-dark sea, I can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure. Much have I suffered, labored long and hard by now in the waves and wars. Add this to the total - bring the trial on!"

"But despite my misery, let me finish dinner. The belly's a shameless dog, there's nothing worse. Always insisting, pressing, it never lets us forget - destroyed as I am, my heart racked with sadness, sick with anguish, still it keeps demanding, 'Eat, drink!' It blots out all the memory of my pain, commanding, 'Fill me up!'"

"That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come..."(less)

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