You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and just as complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.