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don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured."Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom. "Put 'author' on it.""But if I put 'author' on [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], none of those big companies with overflowing coffers will want to hire me as a writer," I said, wondering if George Bush needed a speechwriter or if General Motors wanted someone to write the owner's manual for next year's Oldsmobile."Fine. Put 'writer' on your card then, and all those fancy people you give it to will know you can write for them.""But writer looks so small," I pointed out. "I also want Fortune 500 companies to hire me as a speaker [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and nobody important hires a writer to speak. They hire authors.""OK, why don't you put both?" she offered."Ho, right. That'll impress them. A writer who can't even write his own business card with duplicating his redundancies," I said. "I might as well shoot myself with my own sword."In the end, I put "author", figuring I would get most writing jobs over the Internet [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but when I speak live I would have to hand out cards to lots of people. An author's autograph would make those people giddy as strawberry Jell-O on the Amtrak Express. Those same people would search nervously for a graceful retreat from the company of a mere wriyilai:
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