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Gold Quote by Rumer Godden

“A writer who has never explored words, who has never…” quote by Rumer Godden — Download Open image

“A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.”

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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