Johnson Wrote

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“Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)