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“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”-Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”-William Edgar Stafford

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“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”-George Orwell

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