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Quote by Emily Dickinson
Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man. - Emily Dic

Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man. – Emily Dickinson

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. – Terri Guillemets

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I try to leave out the parts that people skip. – Elmore Leonard

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

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