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“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
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“once you make yourself a freak and special any bastard starts to use you. That's half of the fierce fight in Africa'
— Elizabeth”
― A Question of Power
— Elizabeth”
― A Question of Power
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