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All The Literati Keep An Imaginary Friend.
-W. H. Auden
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All The Literati Keep An Imaginary Friend.
W. H. Auden
All The Literati Keep An Imaginary Friend.
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Left To Itself The Masculine Imagination Has Very Little Appreciation For The Here And Now; It Prefers To Dwell On What Is Absent, On What Has Been Or May Be. If Men Are More Punctual Than Women, It Is Because They Know That, Without The External Discipline Of Clock Time, They Would Never Get Anything Done.
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