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Saul Bellow Quotes: The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
         

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.


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