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John Steinbeck Quotes: A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
         

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.


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