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Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim Quotes: Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
         

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.


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