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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | 'If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with ...

'If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally new writing, obey it - wholeheartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.'

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