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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and
I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
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