“I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s
diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their
quarrels. So I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be an
author.”
—Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1804-1864), writer, in
conversation with his mother about his career options. (Thanks to alert WORDster Mark Larson, reporting
from Salem, Mass.)
• Editorial Comment: Whereupon, he whipped out a quill and dashed out to report on the
latest witch-burning in Salem’s public square.
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