“Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.”
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In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
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