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[Writing is] a bit like shitting...if it's coming in dribs and drabs or not coming at all, or being forced out, or if you're missing the rhythm, it's no pleasure at all.

— Germaine Greer Advice to Writers (1999)

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I hated being out of touch, isolated by the solipsism of delirium, unable to communicate or comprehend.

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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

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