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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Life
Soon
Gold
Dies
Moment
Moments
Gash
Littles
Exhaust
Little
Guise
Come
Identical

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