"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."

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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."

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"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."

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