The People from the horror stories are out there.
There__ a writer for you,_ he said. __nows everything and at the same time he knows nothing._ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers__ecause if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer__till it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren__ people exactly. Or, if they__e any good, they__e a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It__ like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying__nly to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
The Love of the Last Tycoon
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There__ a writer for you,_ he said. __nows everything and at the same time he knows nothing._ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers__ecause if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer__till it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren__ people exactly. Or, if they__e any good, they__e a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It__ like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying__nly to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
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