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Patricia Highsmith getting after it on the typewriter with a ciggy going.

You do not get to decide what my kid reads. That is a problem. You can* decide what your child reads, but even that is a problem if you decide that they cannot access, or read books that could save their life, & allow them to thrive, so if you think books make bad things happen,—

Show me where you’re at mentally

Toni Morrison in her office at Random House, April 14, 1978.