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Old 12-15-2010, 12:36 PM   #988
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I saw that and thought: I intend to live forever or die trying.

I've seen it attributed to Groucho Marx but don't know if that's true.
Glad you liked it. If Groucho said it, he was quoting Masters, who wrote the poem—if memory serves me correctly—in 1915 (the book was published in 1916). The original can be viewed here.

I don't doubt you've seen it attributed to Marx; probably on one of those ubiquitous "quotations" sites with which the World Wide Web is infested, who rarely give sources, and whose "fact-checking" bears no more resemblance to reality than a Willie Nelson 1040 Form.
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