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The impulse to keep to yourself what you have...

“The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

— Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (thx, 12pies!)

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