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    Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists in particular, as I have said before, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears… I would add that novelists are not only unusually depressed, by and large, but have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetics consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.
    — Kurt Vonnegut, “The People One Knows,” essay within Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (via sarahspy) (via libraryland)
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