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The Evening of the Holiday

by Shirley Hazzard

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“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

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“You can't have a "debate" with people who constantly tell crazy lies. Pretending you can only legitimates their crazy lies.”
― Adam Kotsko

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“My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.”
― Leon Forrest

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“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
― Alberto Moravia

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― Ossie Davis

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