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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he__ far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can__ afford self-doubt and he can__ let other people__ opinions, even a father__, keep him from writing.
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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he__ far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can__ afford self-doubt and he can__ let other people__ opinions, even a father__, keep him from writing.

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