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«Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.»
«[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.»
Author: David Leavitt
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cell, copy, copy editor, cubicle, editor, monk, possessed, rigor, rigors
«It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.»
«We're an additional $50,000 over budget even before we start,»
Author: David Leavitt
«The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer»
Author: David Leavitt
«In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.»
Author: David Leavitt
«I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.»
Author: David Leavitt
«For one reason or another, this program has never had a national publication.»
Author: David Leavitt
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