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…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowadays.
…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowadays.
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Dorothy L. Sayers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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