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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - England gave me a language and...
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before. (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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