"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.“
-Carl Sandburg
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
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