When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience …

Salman Rushdie
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

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