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Quotes from Foreword to an Exhibit: I — E. E. Cummings

1894–1962 United States

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Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.

Foreword to an Exhibit: I (1944)

Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.

Foreword to an Exhibit: I (1944)

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