And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Dorothy Parker
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on...
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on...
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on...
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on...
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Flaubert was one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote one novel after another, but they were almost never published. His novels were too difficult to read, even for him. He tried to write them in simple language so that they could be understood by the people he wrote them for. But he kept rewriting and rewriting until none of his works could be understood by anyone at all.

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