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Louis Auchincloss Quotes: A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
         

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.


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