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Christian Kerr's avatar

As Anaïs Nin has it, "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." Or, Thoreau: "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." Or, indeed, Flannery O'Connor, "I write to discover what I know."

There is no writing without not-writing.

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Richard Lynch-Smith's avatar

I like Anaïs best I think; she’s flexing the least. Ta for reading!

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