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Someone — cyril connolly? ezra pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; i would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.
-Joseph Epstein
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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? —

Joseph Epstein
Someone — cyril connolly? ezra pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; i would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.
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