“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
