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Thomas E. Gaddis

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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
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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
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::

2109 fellow Goodreaders [can’t be wrong] gave [K...
NATHAN "N.R." GADDIS The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on...
EAZY-E ..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. LOCKHART I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r...
EAZY-E Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
EAZY-E Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
EAZY-E Compton is my city.
EAZY-E I put Compton on the map.
EAZY-E I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
EAZY-E What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to...
EAZY-E I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
EAZY-E We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
EAZY-E If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t...
EAZY-E I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like...
EAZY-E What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
EAZY-E I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
EAZY-E I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
EAZY-E