“To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.”
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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