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Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Sometimes
Phony
Something
Insights
Think
Insight
Thinking
Mess
Like
Writers
Usually
Wise
Phonies
Live
Messes

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