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Reflections of a working writer and reader

Now when I hear of people taking a year off to write, I worry that a year might not be enough. You must fail as a writer for much longer than that, I think, before you know what failure is and what use you might make of it. I didn't realise, when that first book fell apart, that every book falls apart. That this is the gig. You sit there and watch your word-count drop, and you hold your nerve. Anne Enright

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Bush Lied

An anti-war shirt has been declared illegal in Louisiana and Oklahoma. In both states it is illegal to sell the T-shirt, which features the words ‘Bush Lied‘ on the front, and lists the names of all fallen troops (2,803 at the last count) on the back.

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World’s Problems Solved. Apply within.

I found this on Michael Gates’ Twists & Turns and think it deserves a wider audience:
“We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omniscient - that we are only 6 percent of the world’s population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we [...]

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