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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”
― Henry Ward Beecher