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Essay Camp Day 5—Part 2
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Essay Camp Day 5—Part 2

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Colette (pen name of Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Goudeket) writing c. 1940, photographed at home in Paris.

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette

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