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— Raymond Chandler"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.
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