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I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Adam
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Thinking

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Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.
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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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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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