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A precarious financial condition is often a precondition for great literature.
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- Waqas Younas Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming
It's not to say that the rich can't write but, generally speaking, and as Brodsky hints above, a precarious financial condition is often a precondition for great literature, especially one with moral imperatives.
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