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"And I wrote it based on our surroundings so that the child who is reading it will understand and appreciate that this is something that is familiar."

— Onuora Nzekwu

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"They should try and explore our surroundings... It's the good side of the life that attracts people so we should try and explore our own environment."

One writes from experience and with things that are happening around us. A writer has an opportunity at any given period to pick up a subject that will interest him and once you are interested, you begin to devote your time to follow it up.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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