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From Duncan Murrell:

It's simply dishonest to say that you know exactly why one book fails, but that you have no idea why another of similar seriousness and quality succeeds. The dishonesty emerges from a refusal to face a fact that no writer wants to face: sometimes people just don't like your baby.

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