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Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. but, in good part, it is true. and once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
-David Hare
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Writers Always Sound Insufferably Smug When They

David Hare
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. but, in good part, it is true. and once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
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