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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do Men a longer life than dogs do Dogs a longer life than love does.
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it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death I am not on his pay-roll.
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We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Love is not all it is not meat nor drink.
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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