What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?
Source: The Purple Flower, 1928.
-- Marita Bonner, (?? 1899-1972), US teacher, writer; She experimented with essays and plays including On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored and the brilliant Purple Flower.