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“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”-James Thurber

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has en exception.”-James Thurber

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