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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presenc

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"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world"

- J. M. Coetzee

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This quote is written / told by J. M. Coetzee somewhere between February 9, 1940 and today. He/she was a famous Author from South Africa. The author also have 18 other quotes.

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