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  1. Susan Cheever _ Louisa May Alcott: A Personal

    Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
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  2. Susan Cheever _ Louisa May Alcott: A Personal

    Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success.
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  3. Susan Cheever _ Drinking in America: Our

    John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.
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  4. Susan Cheever _ Drinking in America: Our

    All five of our twentieth-century literature Nobel laureates were alcoholics-Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.
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  5. Susan Cheever _ Drinking in America: Our

    John Berryman, put it, "Something has been said for sobriety, but very little.
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