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Your thorns are the best part of you.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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