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Thomas L. Dumm Quotes: I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.
         

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.


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It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.



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We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.



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