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later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

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E. L. Doctorow

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen. . . Except the act of writing.

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