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Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.


E. Lockhart

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E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
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E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
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