Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
("The Accidental Tourist")
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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