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If someone asks me, __hy do you write?_ I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, __hy do you write the way you do?_ I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world__very cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste.
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If someone asks me, __hy do you write?_ I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, __hy do you write the way you do?_ I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world__very cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste.

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