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I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

Gail Godwin

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Gail Godwin
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 18
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Wrong
Explain
Someone
Aware
Littles
Minutes
Prima
Little
Risk
Donna
Kind
Wants
Interruptions
Always
Taken
Ruin
Time
Five
Distraction
Working
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