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For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

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Wyndham Lewis
Age: 72 †
Born: 1884
Born: November 18
Died: 1957
Died: January 1
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To give up another person's love is a mild suicide like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.
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(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
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