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I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it i...

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Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befri...

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He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himse...

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Angela CarterBurning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely reveal...

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