I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

 

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, ISBN 0805049096

 

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And what have I to give my friends in the last resort?
An awkwardness, a shyness, and a scrap,
No thing that's truly me, a bootless waste,
A waste of myself and them, for my life is mine
And theirs presumably theirs, and cannot touch.

 

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