Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren?
Do I care?
Doesn't everybody?
Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!
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- Author's profession: Author, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 11, 1922
- Died: April 11, 2007
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