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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

Source: In Interview in Writers at Work, (First Series), ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1958.
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.

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