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"My warmest wishes to you Joyce. I can’t follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong."

Thats HG Wells for - "You Suck".

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I don’t know, I read it as “you don’t like my books and I don’t like yours, and that’s fine!”

It’s a great piece: An eloquent reminder that disagreement doesn’t have to mean disrespect.

I got a completely different feeling. I read this as 'we have both been irrevocably shaped by our influences into being entirely different types of writer, thinking the other's have little merit - but we may both have merit'.

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