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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet, Representative Men

Posted on July 1, 2003 at 2:43 PM

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