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November 06, 2013

Standards: Flaubert on his writing.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

--Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

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Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at November 6, 2013 12:59 AM

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