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Hell

A Definition

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Roy Blount Jr
Apr 11, 2024
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"I always think about people that write books," Jerry Seinfeld tells the New York Times. "What a horrible feeling it must be to have poured your soul into a book over a number of years and somebody comes up to you and goes, 'I loved your book,' and they walk away, and you have  no idea what worked and what didn't. That to me is hell. That's my definition of hell."

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