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It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

James Broughton

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James Broughton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 10
Died: 1999
Died: May 17
Actor
Film Director
Poet
Screenwriter
Modesto
California
Poetically
Poems
Write
Live
Important
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