Elwyn Brooks

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    The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss—a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

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    That comes on like a slightly horrible thought.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)