“Beware of a writer quoting too much; he may be quoting all he knows.”
Alfred Kazin
more infosource: January 8, 1941 entry, Alfred Kazin’s Journals, selected and edited by Richard M. Cook (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 23.
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medium: Journal
notes: via Dwight Garner's Twitter feed
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