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Advice to writers from Nobel Prize winner
« on: May 12, 2008, 06:32:28 PM »
"This is why I keep telling anyone younger than me, don't imagine you'll have it forever," she said, according to the BBC. "Use it while you've got it because it'll go. It's sliding away like water down a plughole."

Heh, pretty good.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/12/people.lessing.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Of course, she's 88 so I'm not quite done  yet...
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