Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating

Zadie Smith
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. ✨ On the beginning by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2006.
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