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great men burn bridges before they come to them
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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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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If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings mostpeople are snobs.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise
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...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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