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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

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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
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Frank
Presence
Honesty

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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.
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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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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
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Omissions are not accidents.
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Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.
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When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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Excess is the common substitute for energy.
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