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"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
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"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
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