Keith Gessen Quotes

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

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• One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

  

  Keith Gessen
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  • Sound
  • Might