Unknown. Chevy Chase

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    ‘Erle Dowglas, for thy life,
    Wold I had lost my hand;
    —Unknown. Chevy Chase (l. 151–152)

    [The pleasures of writing] correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader, or—which is the same thing—by the artist grateful to the unknown force in his mind that has suggested a combination of images and by the artistic reader whom his combination satisfies.
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    ‘Erle Dowglas, for thy life,
    Wold I had lost my hand;
    —Unknown. Chevy Chase (l. 151–152)

    It’s not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can’t live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn’t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that ... the ghosts you chase you never catch.
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