The clear days

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  • Published 20140805
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  • Extent: 264 pp
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I am not pitying myself, because I chose it. Evidently this is the way it has to be.
I am committed. It is a question of writing or not writing. There is no other way.
If there is, I missed it.

Mavis Gallant, The Hunger Diaries 1952

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