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“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
British novelist · 1919 – 2013
British novelist, author of The Golden Notebook; she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
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