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The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Writing
Sea
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Madly
Cannot
Distractions
Stills
Seas
Still
Distracted
Come
Distraction

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