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May 23, 2013 11:42 pm PDT
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How Edmund Wilson saidNO
Here's literary critic Edmund Wilson's form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn't a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers gobble up his time: Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him without compensation to: [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mb-b8SInWI8/story01.htm
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