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We that write & print have all our books predestinated—& and for me, I shall write such things as the Great Publisher of Mankind ordained ages before he published “The World”Mthis planet, I mean—not the Literary Globe. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Dec. 14, 1849, to Evert A. Duyckinck. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993).

Categories: Author, Authorship, Determination, Predestination

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