But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet. (Jeffery Deaver)

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Jeffery Deaver

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