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Journalism is a good place for any writer to start — the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

— Garrison Keillor

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

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