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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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