When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things-as opposed to making things up-that did not quite happen. (Geoff Dyer)

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things-as opposed to making things up-that did not quite happen.

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