R.I.P., Norman #Podhoretz [°Jan. 16, 1930 – Dec. 16, 2025]🕯️😔🌹

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“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”

✒️ #AlfredKazin, American writer and literary critic, #DOTD 5 June 1998. #Literature