“I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.”
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
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The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
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