Literature bores me, especially great literature ✨ John Berryman (2014…

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Literature bores me, especially great literature ✨ John Berryman (2014). 77 Dream Songs: Poems, p.16, Macmillan
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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
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