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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.
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Author Details: Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: June 23, 1961 Nationality: American Amazon: David Leavitt on Amazon |
Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Richard Bach Chuck Palahniuk William Faulkner Jack Kerouac Elie Wiesel Nathaniel Hawthorne Truman Capote Gore Vidal |
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Quote Keywords: Away, Before, Bumps, Her, Instinct, Knots, Off, Order, Perfect, Powered, Prose, Put, Sheen, Smoothing, Split, Took, Until, World |
Dictionary Links: Away, Before, Her, Instinct, Off, Order, Perfect, Prose, Put, Sheen, Smoothing, Split, Took, Until, World |
All David Leavitt Quotations: Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. In a memoir, I think, the... It was an instinct to put... |
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