"There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot."
"Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review."
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Source: William Kennedy (2011). “Very Old Bones”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
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