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the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre, and bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects... All great artists and thinkers (are) great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Some good thoughts about writing from This Space
Posted by emphryio at 12:45 PM
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