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Sometimes after dinner he could be coaxed into reciting “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” a long and thrilling ballad by the British-Canadian poet Robert Service, that he had learned by heart.
My grandpa loved Robert W. Service. His favorite poem was The Cremation of Sam McGee.
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
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“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
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