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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life. - Quote by Betsy Lerner

The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

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