Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. - Oliver Goldsmith - Quotesmemo.com

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I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.

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