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I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson

American Critic

Born: Oct 17, 1947

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