"We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers."

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A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.

— James Branch Cabell