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Archibald MacLeish

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. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes


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Quote Left Ambassador Puser the ambassador Reminds himself in French, felicitous tongue,... Quote Right
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Quote Left Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. Quote Right
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Quote Left Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. Quote Right
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Quote Left A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. Quote Right
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