If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

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  I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

• Irwin Shaw:

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• Paul Ricoeur:

  Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question toda