8 June 2003 - virgin sheet

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2003 : 8 June 2003

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Novice Novelist

Do not marry the virgin sheet; commit your soul only to a page which which displays experience.

clue:

“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.” — Harold Acton

give me a clue so sweet and true

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