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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral he could handle any missile.
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