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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a

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"I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art"

- Jane Rule

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This quote is written / told by Jane Rule somewhere between March 28, 1931 and today. He/she was a famous Author from Canada. The author also have 14 other quotes.

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