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James M. Cain

“...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal;”

James M. Cain, The Butterfly
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The Butterfly The Butterfly by James M. Cain
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