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Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.

— John Gregory Dunne Crooning: A Collection (1990)

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Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

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