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February 22, 2014

Flaubert on Standards.

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 JD Hull at February 22, 2014 03:59 AM

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