As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly
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  1. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

  2. When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

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