“Now I can addto my list of life's accomplishments.”
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American writer 1965Related quotes
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I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
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She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
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Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
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Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 11, The leadership scramble, p. 351
