One can never rely on the great keeping one's letters; and should those letters vanish, one is apt to be… — Gore Vidal
One can never rely on the great keeping one's letters; and should those letters vanish, one is apt to be remembered only as the mysterious half of a dialogue to be reconstructed in the vaguest way from the surviving (and sometimes lesser!) half of the exchange.
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