Isak Dinesen Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 17, 1885 - September 7, 1962
Birthday: April 17
Death: September 7
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?
topic: Running, Dog, Horse, Weak Man, War Horse, Succulents
