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Irving Layton OC (March 12, 1912 January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet..

"If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets."

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"God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image."

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"Idealist: a cynic in the making."

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"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."

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"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."

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"Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy."

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"My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."

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"Conscience: self-esteem with a halo."

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