These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindn…

Michael Cunningham
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These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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