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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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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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