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" There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. "
J. B. Priestley
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Enough
Too Much
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" The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? "
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