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Brian Ferneyhough

"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"

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"Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore."

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"Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes."

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