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The Less Clear We’d Be

“It’s true that the basic way we know the personality of others is by their behavior, but we are often aware of a discrepancy between our own horrid actions and our own nice selves, and we can sometimes extend this … Continue reading

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Slick Fiction

“[S]lick fiction — whether of the ‘romantic’ sort or the ‘hard-boiled’ sort — always partakes of the daydream, while quality fiction — as Jung said of Art — always partakes of the night dream.” — Rust Hills, Writing in General … Continue reading

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The Trouble with Mystery

“The trouble with mystery as a structure is that the writer enters into competition with the reader instead of partnership.” — Rust Hills, Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular

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