Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
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I hear America, I hear, what do I hear?Carl Sandburg
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.
Carl Sandburg
By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and
has a soul.
Carl Sandburg
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