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: aprilhenry (aprilhenry) wrote,
2006-12-09 14:37:00

aprilhenry
aprilhenry
2006-12-09 14:37:00

What does the world owe you?

Vladimir Nabokov, the guy who wrote Lolita, and who also taught at Oregon State University, where I went to school, was once offered two hundred dollars to write two thousand words on the topic, "Should the Writer Have a Social Conscience?"

Nabokov wired back. "No." And added "You owe me ten cents."

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What does the world owe you?

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