Virginia Woolf. The spot on the wall (№ 156452)

Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one s hair!
If you look for living a good comparison, it is best to assimilate its flight at a speed of fifty miles an hour in a subway tunnel, which in the end landed without a single hairpin in hair!