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Thorne Smith

"Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved."

Thorne Smith, American Writer
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"Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved."

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author
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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

Roger McGough, British Poet
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