"For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits."

-- Samuel Laman Blanchard

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“That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.”
“Two autumns and I have not changed enough.”
“I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.”
“For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.”

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“Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it”
“I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"”

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“There must be something in books, something we canâ€™t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donâ€™t stay for nothing.”
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”

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