Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible. (Henry Miller)

Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.

Henry Miller

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