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Barbara Tuchman Quotes: I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
         

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.


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