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— Thornton Wilder"Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech."
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
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