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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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