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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.


Tana French

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BARBARA FRENCH An animal on the ground is much more likely to be sick or injured. Bats are small and someone may th...
BARBARA FRENCH The really important thing is, look but don't touch.
BARBARA FRENCH Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would ...
DAWN FRENCH When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are bl...
MARILYN FRENCH A young doctor brings a green churchyard.
FRENCH PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
FRENCH PROVERB They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex ...
MARILYN FRENCH She wanted to go out on a convoy because she was bored with what she was doing.
BETTY FRENCH She wanted stuff from home. She seemed to be happy.
BETTY FRENCH We didn't even know she was in the United States. That made it the best Christmas ever.
BETTY FRENCH She was a family-type person.
BETTY FRENCH All the family had to go out and watch her skydive.
BETTY FRENCH