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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

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Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

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It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 14th, 1925

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