In This Choice, As I Look Back Over More Than Half A Century, I Can Only Follow - And Trust - The Same Sort Of Instinct That One Follows In The Art Of Fiction. - SearchQuotes

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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary A Ward

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