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| 5f95f2d | The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement. | writing exposure improvement failures faults writers | John Steinbeck | |
| 54d0f47 | ... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind. | travel exposure soviet-russia | Martha Gellhorn |