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"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."
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"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."
"There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that."
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