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Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .

Source: A View of My Own, Anderson, Millay and Crane in Their Letters, 1953.
-- Elizabeth Hardwick, (Jul 27 1916-2007), US author, critic; She was the first woman recipient of the Nathan Drama Criticism Award, 1967.

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