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Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
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Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.
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― An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
― An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
