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  • Tell all theTruth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight TheTruth's superb surprise.

    - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
    c.1868  Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published1945).

  • Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

    - Henry Roth
      'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

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