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| bb87889 | Critics always praise precision in writing, and some great writers (Joyce, Beckett, Gustave Flaubert) are masters of clarity--but one of the great (and seldom mentioned) resources of fiction is vagueness. | writing | Edmund White | |
| 0b2899a | All his leisure clothes were absurd -- jokes, really -- as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. | Edmund White |