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I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

Margaret Bourke-White

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Margaret Bourke-White
Age: 66 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1971
Died: January 1
Journalist
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