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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
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Newton
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Anne Gray Harvey
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I like you your eyes are full of language. [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
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