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    The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
    —John Updike (b. 1932)

    Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. ...If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
    Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)