She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself…

Michael Cunningham
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She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.97, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.97, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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