"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
"There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft."
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Source: Jessamyn West (1981). “Double discovery: a journey”, Macmillan Reference USA
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