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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
"A life is one kind of biography and the letters are another kind of life, but the internal story, the true story is in the Collected Poems. The recent attempts by Motion and others to pass judgement o…"
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