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"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
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"You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living."
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