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Once i get over maybe a hundred pages, i won't go back to page one, but i might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. but then every once in a while i feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
-Joan Didion
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Once I Get Over Maybe A Hundred

Joan Didion
Once i get over maybe a hundred pages, i won't go back to page one, but i might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. but then every once in a while i feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
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