"Editing a dictionary isn’t like editing any other book or magazine," the professor pointed out. "It’s a peculiar world. You need extreme patience, a capacity for endless minutiae, a love of words bordering on obsession, and a broad enough outlook to stay sane. What makes you think there are any young people like that nowadays?"
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Shion Miura, The Great Passage. AmazonCrossing, 2017. p. 7
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