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David Leavitt Quotes

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.
David Leavitt

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Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 23, 1961
Nationality:
American
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