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Author Jennifer Acker

Jennifer Acker

Editor, The Common

Jennifer Acker is Editor in Chief of The Common. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have been published in n+1, Guernica, Slate, Harper’s, Ploughshares, and The Millions, among other places. She teaches at Amherst College and was a Faculty Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi.

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Competency and knowledge are not supposed to abandon you like lovers do.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard