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Florence Anthony (October 21, 1947 – March 20, 2010) was an American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa (Japanese : Literally: "Love Stream" ). She won the 1999 National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and Selected Poems.


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Quote Left Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. Quote Right
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Quote Left If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Quote Right
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Quote Left A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. Quote Right
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Quote Left You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. Quote Right
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Quote Left If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs