“It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.”
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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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