“EAST is East, and West is West,” Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “and never the twain shall meet.”
It’s the first line of his poem “The Ballad of East and West” and is often quoted in reference to things which are so sharply different or opposed that they will never come together in agreement or unity.
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