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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 58
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Keen
People
Drive
Destruction
Interesting
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