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• I am afraid when I sit down to write. Sometimes the sweat runs out of me. If you work regularly every day, as I try to do, the fear subsides. But it is never far away. Self expression is no reason for writing. The task is to make a work of art and, in so doing, to say something. Pity for the poets who have no subject save themselves. Christopher Logue

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