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Brief author info: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) American writer, poet and novelist known for her strong voice and social observation; much of work centers around the African American experience in America; as such, considered to have foreshadowed later African American writers' works (such as Imamu Amiri Baraka's); won Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, her second book of poems; well known for her novel Maud Martha.

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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

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Poetry is life distilled.

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Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.

- John Lennon

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Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

- Marilyn Monroe

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