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I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open...
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.
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Born:
March 1, 1914
Died:
April 16, 1994
(aged 80)
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