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Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

Jerome Lawrence

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Jerome Lawrence
Age: 88 †
Born: 1915
Born: July 14
Died: 2004
Died: February 29
Librettist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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