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Helen Garner

"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."

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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."

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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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"I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there."

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