The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment "It is better to keep

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt

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The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment "It is better to keep"In studying the notebooks one feels like an eavesdropper on Dostoyevsky's artistic self communings. . . . We may plainly observe Dostoyevsky's creative logic at work in selection and emphasis, his concern for technique and his struggle to make crystal clear what is ambiguous in his characters. . . . a veritable storehouse of source material on nearly every aspect of the conception, planning, and writing of Crime and Punishment." The New York Times