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If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Born: Apr 17, 1928

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Opportunity, Will, Propaganda, More, Driven, Tract, Genuine, Motive, Linked, Than, Effort, Essay, Happenstance

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