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Sweeney

(505 posts)
9. Sure. Okay with it. You can't actually steal written art.
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 08:42 PM
Dec 2014

All you can do is pretend too, and that is the deepest most honest compliment a writer can receive. Who steals a thing must value it highly or value their soul lowly.

Consider what Shakespeare said: Sans everything. Think of Aristippus, my hero of Greek Philosophy. He was shipwrecked and had to swim to shore. On shore he met people in the square and after talking to them they took him in and fed him. And he said that is how parents should educate their children, so if washed overboard in some distant land that they would have the skills essential to their own support. To lose all and have your life is wonderful. To save all and lose your life is sad. I know when to let go. I write for pleasure. If you take pleasure in my writing we have both what I wanted. Enjoy. Don't spend it all in one place.

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