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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people, I'm sure of that. I had no ambition to be a writer.
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Marianne Moore
Born:
November 15, 1887
Died:
February 5, 1972
(aged 84)
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