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One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.

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Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

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Enrique Vila-Matas

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Born: March 31, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish novelist. He is the author of several award-winning books that mix different genres like meta-fiction and have been translated into thirty languages.
Known for:
  1. Dublinesque. by Enrique Vila-Matas (2012)
  2. Bartleby & Co (2000)
  3. Never Any End to Paris (2011)
  4. Montano (2007)
  5. The Illogic of Kassel (2015)

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