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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings
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e. e. cummings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 14
Died: 1962
Died: September 3
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
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and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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