"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."

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"I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

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"As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag."

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