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title: "2 Writing Decided Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/before-i-became-a-writer-i-was-running-a-jazz-bar-in-the-center-of/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/924/haruki-murakami-21_air_before-i-became-a-writer-i-was-running-a_239227.jpg)

> [ \[Margot Hentoff\] stopped \[writing\]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/margot-hentoff-stopped-writing-she-decided-that-she-had-nothing-more/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

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