Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
Birthday: November 13
Death: December 3
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?
topic: Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes, Devouring, Ginger, Flicker
