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Edgar Allan Poe
American short story writer and poet
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
—Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer and poet, Marginalia, 1849

Posted on November 30, 1998 at 9:10 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
—Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer and poet, Maginalia, 1849

Posted on April 8, 1999 at 7:52 AM

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