I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have a…

John Steinbeck
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ✨ Writers at Work. Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.
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