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I couldn't write-”or wouldn't write, at any rate-”unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

I couldn’t write-”or wouldn’t write, at any rate-”unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands
– Armistead Maupin

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