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William H Gass: If you believed...

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If you believed yourself to be a writer of . . . eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley.

Source: Contending that the Pulitzer Prize in fiction takes dead aim at mediocrity and almost never misses, in NY Times, 5 May 85
-- William H Gass, (Jul 30 1924-2017), US novelist, philosopher, literary critic; He is best known for his experimental story collection In The Heart of the Heart of the Country, 1968.

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