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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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Philip Pullman
“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”
― Philip Pullman
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Sylvia Plath
“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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William S. Burroughs
“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”
― William S. Burroughs
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“My favorite ethnic group is smart.”
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