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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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