They were learning that New York had another life, too _ subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city _ a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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