As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them. (Donald Barthelme)

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.

Donald Barthelme

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