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Michael Chabon Quotes: When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
         

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.


Michael Chabon
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