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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populac

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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