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" I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. "

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" You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. "

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" Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century. "

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