your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he … - Catherine Drinker Bowen

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[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

Catherine Drinker Bowen

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

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[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

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