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"Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the accentuation and inflection of languages, and made “bad grammar” possible."
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"I think myself as a fabulist, not a critic. I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic — that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection…"
— Thornton Wilder
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