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A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.

George McWhirter

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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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George McWhirter

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Born: September 26, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: George McWhirter is a Northern Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate.
Known for:
  1. The anachronicles (2008)
  2. The book of contradictions (2002)
  3. The Gift of Women (2014)
  4. The Incorrection: Poems (2007)

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