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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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No hero is mortal till he dies.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 21st, 1907

Died: September 29th, 1973

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