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“It does not square with experience that any class of men has pre-eminence over any other class in the zeal and perseverance with which its members go about to compass their own ruin.”

Rejecting stereotypes about writers as uniquely chaotic or self-destructive. · Speech, The Handicaps of Letters, 1908

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Rudyard Kipling

30 December 1865–18 January 1936

Rudyard Kipling was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in the bustling colonial port of Bombay, British India, a city that would forever pulse through his veins like the monsoon rains and the clamor of its streets. He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England, at the age of seventy, his body laid to…

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