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I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

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Martin Amis
Age: 75
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Martin Louis Amis
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America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.
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