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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes: If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
         

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.


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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
         



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