Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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