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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
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Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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