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Flannery O'Connor1 quote
When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words. — Flannery O'Connor · 1959Mark Twain1 quote
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is Left out of it. — Mark Twain · 1897Truman Capote1 quote
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. — Truman Capote · 1985Vladimir Nabokov1 quote
My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov · 1962