A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull. (Louis Auchincloss)

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss

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