“Writing is prophesy.
Don’t write anything unless you want it to come true.”
Carole Morin British writer
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
“Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.”
Maxim 15, p. 256
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)
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