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“I think there can be few examples of a life as dilapidated as mine.”

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“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”

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"…All of my poems, to me, have always had an intonation to them, and I think that’s really part and parcel to the nature of writing poetry anyway. My poetry is different from the typical iambic pentame…"

— Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

Social Activism1950

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"I happen to be one of these guys that when you say something, you better mean it."

— George W. Bush

Politics1824–1900

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"These dimensions impinge on one another. They touch. They interpenetrate. And where one dimension touches or passes through another, it forms a line of force on the landscape."

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Literature1950

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