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Quote by Harold Ross
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. – Harold Ross

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