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The Google assures me that it was Robert Frost who dropped this pearl: “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader”.

Actually, the whole quote is “No tears for the writer, no tears for the reader; no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader”. I can recall only one story that I wrote…

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