Wilbur Smith quote — “At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The pr…”

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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

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David Foster Wallace This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered … humor

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It …

Albert Camus The Plague habit rhetoric silence

Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it. But instead I happen to be, in the tree of life of writers, down at the bottom, w…

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