And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
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Hold your pen and spare your voice.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements o...
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody st...
