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Quote by Helen Fielding
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing Bridget Jones to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. – Helen Fielding

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