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...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.
Norman MacleanAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 23, 1902
- Died: August 2, 1990
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Do you write every day?'
'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.' He'd said all this before, to others; he wondered if he'd said it to her. 'It's like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn't ever a time you absolutely had to do it - there was always Saturday, then Sunday - but then there wasn't ever a time when it wasn't there to do, too.'
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