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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Source: DRAMATISTS

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

Source: Twelve Days, ch. 1, 1928.
-- Vita Sackville-West, (Mar 9 1892-1962), English novelist, poet; She wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside, where she spent most of her life.


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