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Edmund Wilson1 quote
I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral. — Edmund Wilson · 1956Toni Morrison1 quote
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981