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— Dana Gioia"Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens."
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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
— John Phillips
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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