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January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“As far as language goes, we have to live contentedly, and discontentedly, with our own, making it do what it can and, also, a little of what it can’t.“

  Happy birthday, Lorrie Moore! 63, today!   “I try to start a project with at least a small sense…

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January 13, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“[T]he most important things in our intimate lives can’t be discussed with strangers, except in books.”

  Happy birthday, Edmund White! 79, today!   “[T]here’s more to contemporary literature than American coffee-cup realism.”   “The novel…

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