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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what w

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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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. – Russell Lynes

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It is possible to regard Norman Mailer as one of the prices we pay for widespread literacy. – Richard Gilman, “Why Mailer Wants to be President,” in The New Republic, 1964 Fe

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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