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" It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. "

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" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "

" The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. "

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