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"Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence"

- Harry Mathews

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This quote is written / told by Harry Mathews somewhere between February 14, 1930 and today. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 25 other quotes.

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