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In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Alfred Kazin, (Jun 5 1915-1998), US critic, teacher, editor; He is best known for On Native Grounds, 1942 and The Inmost Leaf, 1955.

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