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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
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our kind-of bimonthly-ish opportunity to get together with ladies we love and admire to bond, read, chat, share, and learn from each other
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