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“It's not that the writer finds the story. Instead, the story chooses the writer and comes barging in when it feels like the time is just right. A professional writer is simply someone who has the ability to hear that call.”
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“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
― The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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