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A dirge old as the human race is vested in those broken words — if only.
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I was a word lapidary, interested not so much in their values as in their colors. Ruby was a word that glowed. Serene was like a pearl.
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Words. Frail beasts of burden that crashed down to their knees under what she wanted to say.
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The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
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Nigger is a tame-cat word when we uses it ourselves ag'in' ourselves, and a wild-cat word when it comes jumpin' in at us from the outside.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Born:
October 19, 1885
Died:
February 23, 1968
(aged 82)
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