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"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
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