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““All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a few totally faked-up books that sell, but on the whole I believe every writer writes as well as he can.””

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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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