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And they write innumerable books being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

T. S. Eliot

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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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St. Louis
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