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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
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